"The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and its 1967 Protocol, and many other important international instruments recognize the unique role the UNHCR plays in protecting refugees and supervising international refugee law. This in-depth analysis of the UNHCR's su…
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In recent decades, governments and NGOs--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform stan…
Biofilms are of great practical importance for beneficial technologies such as water and wastewater treatment and bioremediation of groundwater and soil. In other settings biofilms cause severe problems, for example in 65% of bacterial infections currently treated by clinicians…
The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights. This book draws explicitly on the international l…
The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional p…
"The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional …
"The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional …
Leading experts in ecology present new, innovative, views on quantitative patterns of biological diversity.
This book demonstrates the value of existing national long-term ecological research in Australia for monitoring environmental change and biodiversity. Long-term ecological data are critical for informing trends in biodiversity and environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem …
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 3rd International Conference on Machine Design and Manufacturing Engineering (3rd ICMDME 2014), May 24-25, 2014, Jeju Island, South Korea. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).The 187 papers are grouped as f…
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 4th International Conference on Mechanics, Simulation and Control (ICMSC 2014), June 21-22, 2014, Moscow, Russia. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).The 144 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Materi…
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Energy Research and Power Engineering (ERPE'14), May 17-18, 2014, Dalian, China. The 477 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Semiconductors, Materials and Processing Technologies in Ener…
This book presents the main methods and techniques for measuring and monitoring the accuracy of geometrical parameters of precision Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) and automated machines, including modern coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). Standard methods and means of …
Europe and the governance of global finance
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"This book charts and analyses this centrality of the European-global link in financial governance for the first time. Its chapters, written by experts in the specific fields, cover the whole breadth of financial markets. They range from banking, auditing and accounting to deriv…