Books published by Idea Group,U.S.

The long-standing debate on public vs. private healthcare systems has forced an examination of these organisations, in particular whether these approaches play corresponding or conflicting roles in service to global citizens. This discusses public and private healthcare organisations by gathering perspectives on the differences in service, management, delivery, and efficiency.

With constant explorative research on educational technologies, it remains important to have a detailed understanding of the implementation of these innovations. This blends together vital research and advances on educational technologies into one comprehensive collection, while structuring the information to make it accessible for implementation into the classroom.

As a result of experimental techniques, the combination of biology and computer science was initiated to classify and process an expanding number of biological observations. This highlights the area of bioinformatics and its impact over the medical community with its innovations that change how we recognise and care for illnesses.

In recent years, libraries have embraced new technologies that organise and store a variety of digital information, such as multimedia databases, digital medical images, and content-based images. This highlights new features of digital library technology in order to educate the database community.

Examines a number of emerging technologies that significantly contribute to modern Information Retrieval (IR), as well as fundamental IR theories and concepts that have been adopted into new tools or systems. This reference is essential to researchers, educators, professionals, and students interested in the future of IR.

Examines the nature of the process of technological change in different sectors of an array of countries, analysing the impact of innovation as well as research and development activities on different outcomes in different fields and assessing the design and impact of policies aimed at enhancing innovativeness of firms.

New technologies have the potential to greatly mitigate cognitive, motor, and social impairments stemming from genetic or environmental factors. Recent Advances in Assistive Technologies to Support Children with Developmental Disorders raises awareness of disabled children and what can be done to help them grow and develop alongside their peers.

The development of fuzzy expert systems has provided new opportunities for problem solving amidst uncertainties. The medical field, in particular, has benefitted tremendously from advancing fuzzy system technologies. This title highlights the latest research in fuzzy rule-based methods used in the detection of medical complications and illness.

Presents information about current online practices and research in teacher education programmes, and explores the opportunities, methods, and issues surrounding technologically innovative opportunities in teacher preparation. It presents empirical evidence of teacher candidate learning and assessment in the context of various online aspects of teacher licensure.

As mobile technologies become ever more pervasive in modern society, users find increasingly innovative methods to take advantage of the newest developments and mobile devices. This title concentrates on one particular and fast-growing application of mobile technologies: data acquisition for the tourism industry.