Economy & Finance

Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness. However, one issue that remains unresolved is how to measure past diet inequalities with the available sources. This book tackles these.

This book describes and critically addresses the innovations and shifts made in the revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) adopted by the European Parliament and Council in 2018.

This book provides a timely picture of the audit sector and how it responds to regulatory and technological challenges. It analyses the impact of EU reforms on audit practices by comparing the U.K. and Italy.

Coded Leadership: Developing Scalable Management in an AI-induced Quantum World will assist researchers and industry experts working towards improvising their processes and developing and deploying strategies in an AI-induced world of quantum computing.

The prolificacy and accessibility of technology and digital communications platforms is not only giving rise to a new form of communication between people and communities, but changing the way individuals, communities and society think, act, and behave.

This volume contributes to the return to nature movement that is very much in vogue in contemporary European societies, by examining the place of food and eating in the "rewilding" process.

This book examines the development of sport sponsorship and its impact on global public health. It argues that sport governing bodies should not continue to treat fans solely as consumers, and that a more ethical approach should be taken to sport sponsorship.

This book examines Bangladesh's ascendancy in socio-economic terms and the prospects of Bangladesh overcoming the challenges to become a higher middle-income nation by 2030.

This book provides a critical account of the impact of Twitter on journalism, exploring how the news media has adapted to and normalised the use of the platform in the industry.

This book focuses on industrial development, design, implementation, and transformation using technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, the Internet of Things, Big Data Analysis, and Blockchain. It aims to incorporate complex processes, functions, and various components as one central component of digital systems.

This book discusses key issues in economic policy in the context of the history of economic thought.

Drawing on qualitative research methods, the book explores examples from the Greek food industry to analyse restaurateurs' and consumer constructed meanings of authenticity, how it is transmitted and received.

This book describe the applications of bioinformatics, data management and computational techniques in clinical studies and drug discovery for patient care. It gives details about the recent developments in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and data analytics for improved patient care.

The book provides the key technologies involved in an organization's digital transformation. It offers a deep understanding of the key technologies (Blockchain, AI, Big Data, IoT, etc.) involved and details the impact, the decision-making process, and the interplay between technologies, business models, and operations.

The book incorporates the many facets of computational intelligence, such as machine learning and deep learning, to provide groundbreaking developments in healthcare applications. It discusses theory, analytical methods, numerical simulation, scientific techniques, analytical outcomes, and computational structuring.

This book explores comics as examples of moral outrage against a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. It will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology and medical humanities.

This book brings together latest applications and state-of-the-art developments in healthcare sector using blockchain technology. It explains how blockchain can enhance security, privacy, interoperability &data accessibility including AI, blockchains for medical imaging to supply chain management, and centralized management alongside the DLT.