Books published by IGI Global

The aim of cybersecurity is to provide security from cyber-attacks. It is important to provide fast protection application software and structure. In this scenario, the government may be focused to provide capable Internet carefully without the risk of fraud.

Illustrates the current challenges students and staff are facing in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) due to inequalities related to diversity issues as well as the support provided to them. The book includes research papers exploring how managers, leaders, and educators can resolve diversity issues in HEI.

The objective of this book is to present to the educational and scientific community the most significant advances in relation to gambling and especially motor play in childhood. Topics, research, systematic bibliographic reviews, and didactic proposals are addressed that relate the different types of games and social relationships.

Explores, through innovative studies, case studies, systematic literature reviews, and reports, the key developments in digital entrepreneurship, circular economy and digitalization, digital business models, digital marketing and internationalization, digital economy, digital learning, trends and challenges, and digital entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Offers new pre-health professional advisors, as well as more seasoned advisors and other administrators, a resource to assist them in their professional journey (regardless of their prior training or lack of available mentorship) and to ensure that all students who wish to pursue health careers are well-prepared to do so.

Focuses on Blockchain research trends in healthcare. The book presents the fundamental and technical details of Blockchain, the applications of Blockchain in healthcare, hands-on chapters for on secure patient healthcare data, and research challenges and future work directions for researchers in healthcare.

Introduces the use of artificial intelligence and big data analytics techniques which can apply opinion mining and text analytics on literary works and social media. This book focuses on theories, methods and approaches in which data analytic techniques are used to analyse data from social media, literary books, novels, news, texts, and more.

Presents educational strategies and resources to promote cross-disciplinary approaches and to get a geographic knowledge and skills. The book is a reference for the teaching of geography from other disciplines.

A reference for a wide number of stakeholders interested in the importance of economic, social and environmental development in sustainable development. New contributions, especially theoretical, practical and managerial, are discussed.

World politics (in comparison for example from history) is oriented on the present and future periods and by this means has the closest ties with the political practice. This book explores different processes within world politics for a wide audience.

Focuses on various advanced manufacturing methods involving 3D printing, casting, welding, Surface modification, CNC, and Non- traditional and hybrid machining methods. Additionally, the book reviews the various machining methods for difficult to cut materials and novel materials including metal matrix composites.

Discusses a range of important topics related to medical and health professions education and provides a greater understanding and knowledge on topics of interest and relevance to readers. In addition, the book provides answers to specific problems and clarifies purposes, processes, and future priorities.

Identifies and justifies the paradigm of transformative learning and pedagogies in education, provides exemplars of existing transformative applications that, if used as partners to empower student learning, have the potential to dramatically engage students in a kind of learning that better fits 21st century learners.

Highlights cross-cultural perspectives, challenges, and opportunities related to promoting cultural competence, equity, and social justice in education, as well as other pertinent topics such as acceptable social justice practices and effective diversity and multicultural education.

Focuses on assessing the effectiveness of active learning and constructivist teaching to promote student engagement. Providing research-based practices, this book can help educators make the connection between active student learning and student engagement to maximize the teaching and learning process.

Discusses new trends for the agricultural and food sectors. The topics covered in this publication allow to bring together the several current dimensions related with the food production. The new insights highlighted with this book bring relevant value added for the several stakeholders.

Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest results of empirical research in the field. It is written for professionals who wish to improve their understanding of the strategic role of marketing 2.0, digital customer experience, and social customer relationship management on social networks.

Deepens the discussion of digital transformation in educational culture and is centred at the intersection of educational technology, information systems, learning sciences, educational psychology and socio-cultural theories.

Presents solutions for the treatment of cognitive diseases with bionics or bioinspired algorithms, using future technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, data science, and more.

Focuses on the culturally responsive, culturally affirming, and antiracist professional practice and advocacy work of school counselors. The book serves as a learning tool that better prepares school counselors to address the needs of marginalized students and work as effective change agents to disrupt systemic oppression.

Provides a thorough background to quantum computing and quantum cryptography principles, as well as their impact on future computers. The book covers the fundamentals of quantum computing and the role of quantum cryptography to overcome the issues of current security methods, and discusses applications of quantum computing.

Offers a comprehensive guide supply chain resilience (SCR), the sources of supply chain (SC) uncertainty, SC innovative strategies to enhance SCR, enablers to develop SCR abilities, and the relationship between SC strategies and SCR capabilities.

Presents research exploring the trends, challenges, and future perceptive of entrepreneurship education in tourism and hospitality programs around the world. The book includes cutting-edge research on a wide range of topics, including teaching pedagogy, curriculum design, ICT, digital transformation, and sustainability topics.

Showcases design examples of ehealth and mheath interventions in two areas: health promotion such as fitness and nutrition, and health professional education such as continuing education or clinical support. The value of this book is in its focus on theory and systematic instructional design.

According to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Wetlands, more than one-third of the United States' threatened and endangered species live only in wetlands, and nearly half use wetlands at some point in their lives. This book offers a comprehensive look at the importance of wetland conservation.

Brings together an analysis of the cultural encounters and coexistence phenomena from different scholarly approaches throughout history. The book will solidify indulgences of cultures through visual and material evidence and effectively add to the scientific environment.

Highlights state-of-the-art practices in the direction of Automated Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) research. The book provides a basis of information about HGR, as well as new and in-depth research in the field.

Examines the impact of machine and deep learning in privacy and cybersecurity, and explores methodologies that can help improve the effectiveness of applications related to those aspects. The book disseminates the latest advances regarding privacy and cybersecurity fueled by machine and deep learning techniques.

Illustrates all the concepts of web mining, from gathering the web data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. The book illustrates, analyses, and compares all the techniques, applications, and algorithms that are used in Web mining categories.

Promotes academic discussion on the reform-based teaching and learning of mathematics at various educational levels and systems all over the world and raises questions for the field of mathematics education. Additionally, the book describes challenges and issues for teachers and teacher educators.