Books published by IGI Global

One of the challenges encountered in the provision of healthcare is the inability of healthcare systems to adapt to or respond adequately to adverse events (pandemics or otherwise) especially in resource limited settings. This book highlights various ways ICTs can help build resilience within healthcare systems.

Explores civil position and identity, conflict preconditions, the start of conflict, and its development, the ways in which to avoid conflict or find solutions, the consequences of such conflicts, and the ways to avoid xenophobia and discrimination to create a solid base for ethnic and religious integration.

Designed to fill a gap for academics, professionals and people alike interested in understanding how to deploy a successful digital transformation in their educational settings, which tools are available out there, and most of all the competencies and skills that are needed in the future.

Highlights the plight of children and explores multi-sectoral approaches in providing sustainable psychosocial support. Quality education for vulnerable children is a top priority and an important discussion is to be had on how to support these types of students and children.

Provides the latest research and advances in computer vision, data image processes, and state-of-the-art research in the deep learning era. The book evaluates and reviews the systems, tools and technologies used in these processes and their applications.

Provides insights in the field of multilingualism and multilingual education based on conceptual and empirical studies that will provide evidence in support of sustainable multilingualism in higher education.

Presents a possible template for addressing the global media mandate as a scientific study of paranormal influence on global culture. Such an approach to the 'New Normal' has been mandated by recent events that highlight global issues of mediated influences on the dynamic of government.

Mixed methods research provides researchers with an opportunity to understand problems from multiple perspectives and for this reason it is becoming prevalent in many fields. This book is dedicated to this emerging methodology and promotes it's potential for providing a comprehensive picture of information science problems.

Explores multimodal English language education, with special reference to CALL, intercultural communication, and collaborative ubiquitous learning. The book reviews and reports on current research methods and theoretical advances in English language learning, linked to applied technologies and action research.

Provides a timely contribution to transportation management post-pandemic. The chapters explore the challenges and the new directions to match travellers needs in a post-COVID-19 world. It also illustrates several methodological applications in transportation.

Highlights of best practices of successful companies in the 'New Normal' conditions caused by the worldwide pandemic. The focus is practical, applied and interdisciplinary. The book provides professionals who want to improve their understanding of innovation with relevant research.

Explains the meaning of Industry 5.0 and the different applications of its usage in daily life by examining modern technologies that had significant impact. The book highlights different case studies and examples of its applications in cloud computing, smart systems and innovation, automation, artificial intelligence, and cyber security.

Presents the most recent food and gastronomy research in hospitality and tourism, highlighting emerging research themes and different methods of approach.

Explores the positive and the negative effects of the increasing use of smart working and distance learning. The book presents the various technologies that have emerged at the forefront of this movement and explores not only the benefits but challenges to smart working.

Explores the application of virtual reality in healthcare settings. This includes 3D modelling techniques, texturing, assigning material, and more. The book covers not only modelling and rendering techniques, but modelling, dressing, and animation in healthcare applications.

Addresses critical issues and challenges in Africa and the emerging trends for the future. Authors from varied disciplines examine and offer insight into what knowledge already exists in a specific topic area and what that may mean for the future of Africa.

Explores artificial techniques, pattern recognition, machine and deep learning-based methods and techniques applied to different real time applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The aim is to synthesize the scope of machine learning and deep learning models in enhancing UAV capabilities, solutions to problems and application areas.

Recent events have revealed that many healthcare workers are subject to very high levels of occupational stress. This book assembles research into one volume to allow clinicians, researchers, educators and administrators to understand the extent of specific risks, their prevention, and treatment.

This book discusses the global manufacturing teaching strategies of the 21st century, including employing the New Global Manufacturing Model (NGMM) using total linkage of TDS, TPS, TMS, TIS and TJS, as the next generation management technology principle.

The current situation in the language education community has lead to disruption and frustration among practitioners and learners. This book examines this phenomenon and provides an avenue for to share experience, thoughts and suggestions about transferring material and teaching approaches from face-to-face to online.

Explores the strengths of Blockchain adaptation in manufacturing industries and logistics management, covers different use cases of blockchain technology for manufacturing industries and logistics management, and will discusses the role, impact and challenges of adopting blockchain in manufacturing industries and logistics management.

With an emphasis on world history and epidemiology, this book weaves together the story of infectious disease from the dawn of man to the present time. The book provides systematic details about specific diseases, scoping them in terms of both personal and world impact.

Provides the latest research, investigations, and development in the area of living systems intelligence, human-level cognition and artificial systems, nature and bioinspiration, machine learning techniques, and systems that exhibit intelligent autonomous behavioural characteristics.

Discusses and addresses the trends and challenges of open innovation to both business and a countries' economic and social development. This comprehensive and timely publication is an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of open innovation and its linkage to entrepreneurship, strategy, and marketing.

Analyses the theory and methodology of interdisciplinarity, the application of the general theory in four disciplines of the applied economy (world economy/globalization, management, accountancy science, and marketing) to compare the interaction of real globalization and its reflections in forms and levels of interdisciplinarity.

Provides an overview of the Australian trade and investment relationship with South Asia, identifies trends and developments of the bilateral trade relationship of Australia and South Asia, and sheds light on the future opportunities for development and partnerships for economic growth, trade in goods and services and tourism.

Presents current research and thought-leadership on the ways in which innovative education stakeholders are working together to impact what are perhaps the most critical years in a child's education - the years leading up to and including kindergarten.

Provides state and non-state actors with vital information that will deepen the understanding of the Paris Agreement and its impact on economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in post 2050, when low carbon transition is expected to have been well entrenched in many developed countries.

Focuses on international risk management practices, and its relationship to firms' performance, and other dimensions of companies. The book presents research on topics such as several types of financial risk, management of risk, hedging strategies, corporate governance and risk management, and behavioral finance and risk, and more.

Focuses on the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on employment structure and related issues from a gender perspective, and analyses the impact of technology for mainstreaming women in paid employment.