Books published by Arcler Press

This book briefly introduces the main approaches, theories, hypotheses, and models in the field of second language acquisition outlining key terminologies in each as well as their basic claims. The book provides the intended readerships with a substantive source by which they can acquire an immediate experience with ins and outs of the trends in second language acquisition. It offers students introductions to the core topics in encyclopedia-like descriptions of various concepts used in the L2 professional literature. The most outstanding feature of the book is its clear and concise description of the content knowledge and controversial topics dominating polemical debates defining the interlocking dimensions comprising the field of English language teaching. Citations provided at the end of each concept will lead the reader to original. The sketchy overview of the main issues, terms, and people introduced makes the book a must-have reference for MA students, PhD students, teachers and researchers in applied linguistics.

This book briefly introduces the main language teaching methodology by providing a brief historical overview along with outlining basic issues in language teaching. It presents students a succinct overview of the main issues, terms used in the literature. The goal is not to be exhaustive but rather to provide a sketchy overview of the basics for the novice reader. The most outstanding feature of the book is its concise description and controversial topics dominating critical debates defining the interlocking dimensions comprising the field of English language teaching. The organization of the book is in fact transparent enough to support student learning about successful handling of exams and interviews by focusing on a myriad of related topics and questions often asked by honorable teachers, interviewers, and professors as one of the fundamental requirements in post graduate university admission tests as well as PhD comprehensive examinations. The sketchy overview of the core topics introduced in 125 key terms makes the book a must-have reference for the readers in applied linguistics.

With the development of critical approaches in education and their application to the field of English language teaching (ELT) and the hidden curriculum (HC), the local perspectives towards the ELT industry in the world are emerging worldwide. Considering the notion that ELT has been regarded as a political activity, it is crystal transparent that language policymakers should not contemplate ELT as a value-free or a mere educational concern. The book aims to propose the application of critical language pedagogy in ELT classrooms and to provide practical guidelines/principles for implementing such an approach. In so doing, this book looks at education in the third millennium and proposes an operational model in language teaching.

This book takes a theory to practice approach on language syllabus design, materials evaluation and development, and to develop understanding of appropriateness of materials for specific target groups. The book aims to foster a working awareness of the methodological issues involve is syllabus design. The contents serve to develop and implement the lesson integrating for adopting, adapting, and developing language instructional units. The key feature of this book is to develop language instructional materials for young learners, electronic language instructional material, materials for cultural awareness, and EAP/ESP instructional materials. The book takes different approaches in curriculum development that lead into the practical aspect of situation analysis and language curriculum development, project work, discourse-based, genre-based, and competency-based language curriculum development.

Some of the effects of that approach were the endless and sometimes completely meaningless wars. Eventually, nations began to build fragile alliances when they realized that it was costlier to fight one another than to work together. Unfortunately, like everything else, international sanctions have come to represent the worst aspects of postcolonial hegemony and even outright international injustice. In effect, international sanctions have exposed contradictions inherent in modern implementations of international law. Some of the most vocal advocates for international sanctions are countries that are not actually signatories to many of the internationally accepted covenants. This book attempts to tell the story of international sanctions. Specifically, it highlights the political and economic interests that lay at the heart of this conflict among nations.

The book explains the different aspects of socio-economic governance and gives and overview on e-governance. This book sheds light on the political governance in small states as well as environmental governance in small states. It also emphasize the social and economic governance in small states along with discussing the small states and good governance for sustainable development.

This book reflects the dark realities of modern slavery and human trafficking and analyses the horrifying human and social cost of these processes. Adopting an eclectic and multidisciplinary approach, this book offers a profound understanding on modern slavery and human trafficking and its devastating consequences on human lives. The book covers a wide variety of themes including the legacy of modern slavery, economic exploitation of migrants, patterns of exploitation, globalisation and the changing nature of slavery and the policy response towards human trafficking and slavery. The book that unflinchingly illustrates the torments endured by the powerless victims of slavery and human trafficking is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students of International Law, Human Rights, Sociology, Political Science and International Relations.

In this book, the key concepts of social theory and social movement have been outlined. This book also explains the theories of political protests and social movements, along with the theory of social enterprise and pluralism. It also lays emphasis on movements, from national to global social movement, network movements, alternative globalization and new media. It also explains the social movements starting from the ancient to contemporary times, which also deals with capitalism, culture, and the reinvention of everyday life. apart from this, it further illustrates the inequality, inclusion, and protests as also the action forms, repositories and cycle of protests.

The book "Key Concepts in Economics" highlights the key terms related with economics. The text material of the book has been structured and presented briefly in simple language and supported with appropriate figures. This book includes more than 650 important concepts of microeconomics, macro economics, production economics, behavioural economics, international trade, financial management, marketing, business management. Importantly the book helps reader to learn concepts and theories and can relate it to practice. This book is helpful for the UG, PG students, research scholars and faculties to acquaint with the key concepts in economics.

This book gives a brief introduction to the several aspects of diverse Asian cultures coupled with a brief history of Asia. It talks about the growth and changes in Asian tourism over the years with special emphasis on cultural and contemporary tourism, food tourism and development in Asia. It sheds light on the impact of culture on tourism, cultural potential and challenges facing Asia, and the future of Asian contemporary tourism.

Brand Management in Digital and Sustainable Times is a book intended to serve as a reference guide for undergraduates, graduates, as well as professionals aiming to understand and overcome the challenges of brand management. Brands have various applications for companies, goods, and individuals. Nowadays, every customer is a publisher and has a brand to promote goods through social media platforms. Companies should leverage this aspect as maintaining the brands reputation is essential. When a company decides on a brand to represent itself in the public eye, it must first establish its identity or how it wants to be perceived. The book presents seven carefully written chapters. Chapter one presents an introduction to brand management. A holistic approach to branding is presented in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 discusses product placement and brand integration. Chapter 4 covers brand identity, a critical requirement for any company to progress. Chapter 5 focuses on retail management, providing an overview of the visual merchandising concept, and focusing on customer relationship management (CRM), brand management, and sales management. Chapter 6 concentrates on digital branding and marketing. The final chapter, Chapter 7, explores the fundamental concepts, challenges, and issues of contemporary sustainable brand management in light of the concepts multidisciplinary aspects. With these seven chapters, readers are expected to have a comprehensive introduction to brand management in the current marketing environment. A list of references is presented in each chapter to support the reader with additional literature on the subject.

Indigenous education is a local decision-making framework in food security, human and animal health, education, natural resource management, and other important economic and social activities. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions, as well as their scientific, technological, and cultural expressions, including the characteristics of human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, animals and plants, oral tradition, literature, design, traditional sports and games, and visual and performing arts. The book presents and develops the notion of community-based education as a means of combating this tendency. Some examples of indigenous community-based education are examined, and there is a discussion both of its distinctive features and underlying principles, and its potential impact on the education of indigenous students.

Human law always needs reform. In order to preserve the rule of law, it is necessary to carry out legal reforms based on the principles of reasonable methodology and fully consider the perspectives of civil society and professionals. The process must be respectable, reliable, strict and responsive. In seeking successful legal reform through these measures, experience and expertise are required. The volume provides a practical guide to the daily process of legal reform in any jurisdiction. There are many articles on legal reform, but due to its practicality and cross-jurisdictional focus, this volume is unique. The demand for such a volume has been widely recognized. This volume guides readers through typical legal reform projects in a practical way. Whether it is read holistically or mentioned when a problem arises, it is designed to make it easy for readers to access and participate in law reforms. The volume provides ideas for logical legal reforms and discusses practical possibilities. It presents the benefits of different reform methods, discusses the reasons, and gives example of successful law reforms.

The overview of criminilogy, crime, deviance, and society, capitalism and community has been illustrated in this book. It throws light on the sociology of criminology, terrorism and state violence. It discusses the victims, survivors and victimization in addition to the controlling crime, the issues and challenges as well as the future of criminology.

This book is written from the perspective of trying to understand how small businesses have contributed to the hospitality industry. The book also explores the challenges that small businesses face in this sector. In so doing, the book highlights some of the possibilities for recovery and supporting these small businesses. This book is aimed at undergraduates who are interested in hospitality, business, global trends, and the social sector as an engine of development.

This book entitled, Applying Phonetics: Speech Science in Everyday Life has been designed to add to the knowledge of researchers, scholars and the students of linguistics to enlighten them with various aspects of speech, the language and their applications in their day-to-day life. It takes the readers through an overview of the speech, the basic concepts of phonetics and how these concepts assist the learners in gaining the intricate nuances of the spoken language. The book also talks about the role and technique in the articulation of the speech sounds and the spoken language and its application in the teaching of a second language. Additionally, the book sheds light on the linguistic aspects of phonetics, its utility in the day-to-day conversation and other applications.

This book will explore case studies of child poverty in a range of countries, including those that are highly industrialized; those that are considered to be middle-income countries; and the least developed countries. Throughout, the book will highlight the similarities of experience, which call for an international and coordinated response. At the same time, the book will also highlight the localized experiences of child poverty which may vary greatly. The implication is that international efforts have to be complemented with more localized approaches that are contextualized. Additionally, the book will critically examine some of the policy formulations that are designed to deal with the problem of child poverty. However, this critique will be done in such a way as to highlight the possibilities, limitations, and suggestions for improvement concerning policies that are designed to alleviate or eliminate child poverty.This book will explore case studies of child poverty in a range of countries, including those that are highly industrialized; those that are considered to be middle-income countries; and the least developed countries. Throughout, the book will highlight the similarities of experience, which call for an international and coordinated response. At the same time, the book will also highlight the localized experiences of child poverty which may vary greatly. The implication is that international efforts have to be complemented with more localized approaches that are contextualized. Additionally, the book will critically examine some of the policy formulations that are designed to deal with the problem of child poverty. However, this critique will be done in such a way as to highlight the possibilities, limitations, and suggestions for improvement concerning policies that are designed to alleviate or eliminate child poverty.

This book gives an insight to the introduction, initiatives and community engagement in community based tourism, along with its management and marketing. It also defines the paradoxes involved and the building of community capaicty for tourism development and further discusses the community based tourism in the light of the developing world in addition to the sustainable tourism and indigenous people. In the end, it addresses the future challenges and opportunities involved in its management.

Religious tradition such as Christianity involve religious practices such as praying, gathering, taking care of the fellow men, dealing with life and death, or the interpretation of religious stories. The culmination of the religious topics in the syllabi has raised several concerns even in the conservative nations that are not willing to open for a secular biased society. This is the case with the developing countries those economies are buoyant and willing not to take any sort of risk. This book explains the role of religious studies in affecting the education under academic lens. This book mainly serves to the social researchers and undergraduate, postgraduates who are willing to pursue an education that links religious almanac with the education sphere.

Organizational groups are continually settling on choices that impact on the adequacy of their performance and the organization at large. This volume makes reference to the nature of cooperative decision making, which despite being more beneficial than individual decision making, is still prone to risks including different personalities and incongruity of ideas. Some of the chapters in this book include; chapter 1: group decision-making and chapter 2: the essentials of negotiation among others. Strategies for improving collective decision making have been developed to such an extent that they can be utilized to guarantee top notch decisions in company settings. Cooperative decision-making measures are usually embraced to strengthen social bonds within the company. In this volume, the author examines the impacts of collective decision making on organizational goals, recognizing the strengths and result impacts of the strategy. In particular, it builds on the likelihood of attaining better results in comparison to individual decision-making strategy. Different ideas are presented and the most ideal ones are chosen.

This book provide highlights on the various terms that are used in mathematics. Mathematics is essential in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, finance, and the social sciences. Applied mathematics has led to entirely new mathematical disciplines, such as statistics and game theory. Mathematicians engage in pure mathematics (mathematics for its own sake) without having any application in mind, but practical applications for what began as pure mathematics are often discovered later.

Today, more than ever, the role of educational technology in teaching is of great importance because of the use of information and communication technologies. In order to keep pace with the changes we are seeing in schools, districts, and states on an almost daily basis, we also need to change how often the national education technology plan is updated. With the help of various applications for distance education, the Internet, teachers, and students themselves, they see the advantage of educational technology. This book is intended to give an overview of the components and use of educational technology in the classroom.

Over the last 20 or so years, the number, range, and complexity of medical devices available on the market has increased drastically and as a result, so has the complexity of the regulations involved. With new and emerging technologies as well as various well-known incidents within the medical device industry, the current regulatory framework has since been challenged. In fact, many gaps and scarcity of skills and expertise have been identified. For this reason, there was an increasing need to update the current Medical Device Directive (MDD 93/42/EEC) in the European Union, which in turn led to the development and release of the Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR 2017/745). This volume aims to provide an easy-to-understand guide for beginners to the medical device regulations in Europe with specific focus on classification methods. It looks specifically at how to class a medical device based on the risk associated with it as well the details around the European Classification Systems provided in the MEDDEV 2.4/1. This volume also delves into the detail around defining borderline medical devices and how they are classified according to the Manual on Borderline and Classification in the Community Regulatory Framework for Medical Devices as published by the European Commission.

Web technology is necessary for today because the internet has become the number one source of information, and many of the conventional software applications have become web applications. Web technologies are the several tools and methods that are applied in the activity of communication between different types of devices over the internet. This book provides students and web developers with an understandable introduction to the web programming and scripting languages used to create Web sites and web applications. The main aim is to teach the programming concepts of different Web technologies and the fundamentals needed to program on the internet.

This book entitled, "Introduction to Speech and Language Therapy", has been designed to add to the knowledge of researchers, scholars and the students of second language learners to enlighten them with various aspects of the speech, the language and the methods and techniques of its acquisition. It takes the readers through an overview of speech and language therapy and how these concepts assist the children and the adults in gaining the intricate nuances of the language. It also talks about the role and technique of speech and language proper and its assessment in the teaching of second language. Additionally, the book sheds light on the linguistic theories of speech, the teaching of language for children and the techniques of vocabulary development.

The medical device sector is growing fast. Every day new technology which is both complex and smart are being added to the industry. Ensuring safe and effective use of medical devices for patients and users of the device itself is a crucial responsibility for manufacturers. When designing and manufacturing medical devices, safety, and efficacy should be of utmost importance. A manufacturer should never compromise on the clinical safety requirements of its users, patients or any other persons involved. Generally, the design of a medical device is regulated by the essential principles (EP) of safety and performance. What this means is that if a device is designed to relieve pain, the manufacturer must be able to clinically prove that the device can in fact relieve pain. Often this poses a great deal of challenges to manufacturers; however, building in appropriate safety and risk management functions across a devices lifecycle is imperative if they wish to reduce the risk of post-market problems. This volume aims to provide an overview of the harmonized essential principles that must be achieved in the design and development of medical devices. It provides an in-depth explanation of the relevant medical device regulations in Europe with a specific focus on the safety and performance requirements for medical devices.

This book covers different topics from deep learning algorithms, including: methods and approaches for deep learning, deep learning applications in biology, deep learning applications in medicine, and deep learning applications in pattern recognition systems. Section 1 focuses on methods and approaches for deep learning, describing advancements in deep learning theory and applications - perspective in 2020 and beyond; deep ensemble reinforcement learning with multiple deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm; dynamic decision-making for stabilized deep learning software platforms; deep learning for hyperspectral data classification through exponential momentum deep convolution neural networks; and ensemble network architecture for deep reinforcement learning. Section 2 focuses on deep learning applications in biology, describing fish detection using deep learning; deep learning identification of tomato leaf disease; deep learning for plant identification in natural environment; and applying deep learning models to mouse behavior recognition. Section 3 focuses on deep learning applications in medicine, describing application of deep learning in neuroradiology: brain hemorrhage classification using transfer learning; a review of the application of deep learning in brachytherapy; exploring deep learning and transfer learning for colonic polyp classification; and deep learning algorithm for brain-computer interface. Section 4 focuses on deep learning applications in pattern recognition systems, describing application of deep learning in airport visibility forecast; hierarchical representations feature deep learning for face recognition; review of research on text sentiment analysis based on deep learning; classifying hand written digits with deep learning; and bitcoin price prediction based on deep learning methods.

Principles of Optical Interferometry" is an edited book consisting of 19 contemporaneous open-access articles featuring different aspects of optical interferometry, from heterodyne to speckle interferometry. It includes methodologies of interferometric fringe analysis, as well the applications of Fabry-Perot, Fizeau, and Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. It introduces to a class of recent interferometer designs such as the Point Diffraction Interferometer, Radial Shearing Interferometer, Fiber-Optic Ring Resonator Interferometer and a Neural Network-Based Laser Interferometer. Reading this book requires some knowledge in calculus, differential equations, electromagnetism, and general topics in interferometry. This book is intended to reach an academic audience ranging from Science undergraduate students to experienced researchers.

Applied Algebraic and Differential Calculus" is an edited book consisting of 18 open-access articles on mathematical analysis and computational methodologies for solving differential equations, as well as matrix eigenvalue, boundary value, and bifurcation problems. It includes a variety of algebraic and numerical strategies from decomposition to neural network based methods. Reading this book requires some knowledge in advanced calculus, differential equations, matrix computations. This book is intended to reach an academic audience ranging from graduate student to experienced researchers.

"Solar and Space Physics" is an edited book consisting of 16 contemporaneous open-access articles featuring the modeling of the solar magnetic activity and space weather. It aims to provide an overall overview and to review the recent advances in the modelling of the solar dynamo and its important features, including the sunspot butterfly diagram. It also focuses on the impact of the solar activity cycle on Earth's environment. It includes magnetohydrodynamics modeling and forecasting of the past, current, and future solar magnetic activity, from the strong magnetic eruptions during solar minima to low number of sunspots and weakening of magnetic structures during solar minima. It includes, in particular, the analysis of the most recent solar cycles (Solar Cycles 23 and 24) as well as a prediction for the current solar cycle (Solar Cycle 25). Reading this book requires some knowledge in electromagnetism, hydrodynamics, and time series. This book is intended to reach an academic audience ranging from advanced undergraduate students to experienced researchers.