“…The paper compares the impact of ICT capital accumulation on output growth in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. …”

“…Based on periodic surveys of more than 10 000 households, this publication presents responses from the most recent round of the OECD survey implemented in 2011, in 5 areas (energy, food, transport, waste and water) and 11 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. …”

“…This report describes recent trends in government and university level policies to enhance the transfer and exploitation of public research and benchmarks the patenting and licensing activities of PRIs and universities in a number of OECD countries and regions, including the EU, Australia, Canada, and the US. Finally, it also showcases, based on case studies of leading institutions in Finland (Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship), Germany (Fraunhofer Institute), the Czech Republic (Technology Transfer Office of the Czech Technical University), Japan (open innovation in firms), United States (National Institutes of Health) a number of good practices for increasing the number of university invention disclosures, accelerate licensing contracts and promote more open innovation practices between universities and firms. …”

“…—Dr Catherine Brown OAM, CEO, Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation, Melbourne, Australia This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. …”

“…In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, the focus of this book includes the spatial, political and cultural landscape practices of the apartheid government and also refers to contemporary work done in Australia, England and the US. It probes the uncertainty and ambiguity of identities and cultures in post-apartheid society in order to gain a deep understanding of the history that individuals and society now confront. …”

“…Examples are drawn not just from Western Europe and North America but also Australia, South Africa, the Far East, Israel, Iran, South America, and Eastern Europe. …”

“…The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion’s dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United States, as well as its preference for official religions as opposed to diverse worldviews in all of their manifestations from around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. …”

“…s agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, the US and continental Europe. They examine a range of current and future challenges for healthcare law and bioethics, representing state-of-the-art scholarship in the field…”

“…Danielle Watson is Senior Lecturer and Research Training Coordinator in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Loene Howes is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. …”

“…-Nicole Graham, Professor and Associate Dean Education, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia; author of Lawscape: Property, Law, Environment (Routledge, 2011) “This book uniquely brings together the usually disconnected domains of landscape, law, place, property and justice into a cohesive whole. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Australia / Sarah Joseph, Adam Fletcher, and Anna Lochhead-Sperling -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Brazil / Thiago Amparo,Odara Andrade, Júlia Piazza, and Deborah Bittar --The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Canada / Alexander Agnello and Frédéric Mégret -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Colombia / Rodrigo Uprimny, Sergio Ruano, and Gabriella Michele García -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in the Czech Republic / Harald Christian Scheu and Jitka Brodská -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Egypt / Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Estonia / Merilin Kiviorg -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Finland / Merja Pentikäinen -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in India / Miloon Kothari and Surabhi Sharma -- The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level in Jamaica / Tracy Robinson and Malene C. …”

“…This book draws on the experience of experts involved in the development of competence training for pharmacy education and training in Europe, North America, and Australia. It discusses the philosophy and implications of such an approach, as well as the production and development of models, and their application to existing courses…”

“…Considering ten illustrative exemplar programmes from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand, Winter explores how redress programmes attempt to resolve the anguish, injustice, and legacies of trauma that survivors experience. …”

“…This book dismantles that persistent positivism with a forceful critique, then fills the void with a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods, using concrete examples of research projects from First World Indigenous peoples in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Concise and accessible, it is an ideal supplementary text as well as a core component of the methodological toolkit for anyone conducting Indigenous research or using Indigenous population statistics"--…”