Books published by IGI Global

"This book provides research designed to reduce the gap between the scientific theory and the practice of dance. While highlighting topics such as burnout, mental health, and sport psychology, this publication explores areas such as nutrition, psychology, and education, as well as methods of maintaining the general wellbeing and quality of the health, training, and performance of dancers"--

Provides an in-depth look into the new techniques, strategies, and technologies for achieving environmental sustainability. The book covers topics such as eco-innovation, green criteria, Agriculture 4.0, and topics related to logic, philosophy, and history of science and technology from the green/sustainable point of view.

Provides an introduction as well as up-to-date information in the logistics and supply chain management fields. The book focuses on applying theory to practices and provides both quantitative and qualitative methods for decision makers; additionally, it details current information regarding digitalization, IT, and optimization techniques.

Addresses rising concerns of students' ability to navigate the multitude of false and altered information and content that is easily accessible through online platforms. The chapters go into deeper detail about how deep fakes, fake news, and mis- and dis-information have the potential to negatively affect teaching and learning.

Presents a number of methodological innovations in research and applied examples of these methodologies in practice. The chapters focus on the application of methodological approaches and descriptions of the epistemological foundations of the given methodologies so that researchers can fully articulate and justify their methodological choices.

Highlights the best practices in public administration and policy education and training to contribute to the development of the public administration and policy education/training field. This book focuses on comparative studies and innovative teaching techniques and how they affect public administration education methods and curriculum.

Offers a current overview of modern practices regarding the teaching of autistic children. The book updates the current practices for professionals working with autistic children, offers practical information regarding interventions, and provides tools for managing autistic children in critical situations.

Provides researchers a platform to present state-of-the-art innovations, research, and designs while implementing methodological and algorithmic solutions to data processing problems and designing and analysing evolving trends in health informatics and computer-aided diagnosis in deep learning techniques in context with cyber physical systems.

Provides knowledge, skills, and dispositions for teaching multicultural, multilingual, and immigrant deaf and hard of hearing students globally and identifies the challenges facing the inclusion needs of this population.

Synthesizes all the trends, best practices, methodologies, languages, and tools that are used to implement gamification. The book also discusses how to put gamification in action by linking academic and informatics researchers with professionals who use gamification in their daily work.

Provides interdisciplinary research in information retrieval and sentiment analysis, including studies on extracting sentiments from textual data, sentiment visualization-based dimensionality reduction for multiple features, and deep learning-based multi-domain sentiment extraction.

Focuses on the tactical sciences needed to succeed in the biosecurity objectives of preventing plant and animal pathogens from entering or leaving the United States. This book explores a divergence of tactics between plant and animal exotic disease response.

Provides personnel working in the fields of intelligence and law enforcement with an opportunity to delve into to the challenges, choices, and complications in finding, applying, and presenting the gathered intelligence through various methods and then presenting them through available policies and procedures in the arena of law and order.

Reexamines the purpose of higher education during rapidly changing times, offers practical advice and best practices to reclaim higher education's most fundamental mission, and argues that if higher education is called to prepare students to serve a government by the people, the people must be prepared to govern effectively.

Provides innovative research on the latest findings, ideas, and applications in fields of interest that fall under the scope of NLP, including computational linguistics, deep NLP, web analysis, sentiments analysis for business, and industry perspective.

Evaluates motivational obstacles in online distance education both theoretically and practically, identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the online education environments regarding motivation, and provides actionable motivational and volitional strategies for online educators.

Explores the genesis of higher education and its contemporary structure and profile in major global regions and discusses key trends, dynamics, drivers, and developmental imperatives currently shaping business education.

Covers the modelling, control theorems, and optimization techniques that solve many scientific problems for researchers in the field of power converter control for renewable energy hybrid storage, and places particular emphasis on the modelling and control of static converters for hybrid storage systems.

Highlights the importance of integrating robotics in educational practice and presents various ways for how it can be achieved. The book further explains how 21st century skills and life skills can be developed through the hands-on experience of educational robotics.

Provides knowledge and skills to apply management and marketing on strategic, tactical, and operational aspects with an emphasis on the healthcare industry. Various aspects of management and marketing, such as operations management, quality management, human resources, brand management, and digital marketing, are discussed.

Provides theoretical and empirical insights in the prospects and challenges associated with community-based tourism (CBT), critically examining issues of structure, impact, management, marketing, support, changing demographics, challenges, sustainability, and implications for the future of CBT.

Addresses issues concerning indoor environmental quality (IEQ), including air quality and ventilation, access to daylight and views, acoustic conditions, and control over lighting and thermal comfort, as well as the impact that this environment can have on human health and mental well-being.

Explores the genesis of higher education and its contemporary structure and profile in major global regions, and discusses key trends, dynamics, drivers, and developmental imperatives currently shaping business education.

Provides an in-depth look into the new techniques, strategies, and technologies for achieving environmental sustainability through best business and technology practices. The book covers topics such as eco-innovation, green criteria, Agriculture 4.0, and topics related to logic, philosophy, and history of science and technology.

Provides an introduction as well as up-to-date information in the logistics and supply chain management fields. The book focuses on applying theory to practices and provides both quantitative and qualitative methods for decision makers; additionally, it details current information regarding digitalization, IT, and optimization techniques.

Examines different aspects of social sciences, management, sociology, and education to better understand today's society in the Asian context. The book identifies trends, impacts, and implications of disruptive technologies for business and socio-economic development as well as strategic advantage on different levels of business and administration.

Presents a complex and thorough theoretical infrastructure concerning the Sustainable Development Goals, challenges and practices, as well as an important set of empirical results that will make a tremendous contribution to the analysis of the key determinants specific to the Sustainable Development Goals.