Boeken Hoofd Research & Development

Getting a PhD

This highly practical book provides a workable action plan to help students get a PhD. Illustrated throughout with examples from a wide range of academic disciplines the book includes exercises and points for reflection as well as info on research.

Spaces of Peace, Security and Development - Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention

Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts. Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Myanmar, inviting …

Routledge/ISDRS Series in Sustainable Development Research- Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education and infrastructure.

Social Indicators Research Series 58 - Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect

This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa’s development post-2015. It assesses the current state of the MDGs in Africa by outlining the successes, gaps and failures of the state goals, including lessons learned. A unique feature of the book is the exposition on post-MDG’s agenda for Africa’s development. Chapters …

Knowledge on the move

Routledge Research in Legal History-The League of Nations and the Development of International Law

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative. It adopts a biographical approach that complements existing legal narratives.

SpringerBriefs in Linguistics - Designing Research on Bilingual Development

This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical solutions. The present volume introduces a research design intended to capture a wide range …

China Perspectives- Scientists' Impact on Decision-making

With the increasing influence of science and technology (S&T) on socioeconomic life and public affairs, there has been a growing demand for S&T expertise in today's public decision-making. The National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program), involving hundreds of S&T experts, marked the beginning of a new journey for China's high-tech development. This …

Pedagogies of Religious Education

Automated Trading with R

All the tools you need are provided in this book to trade algorithmically with your existing brokerage, from data management, to strategy optimization, to order execution, using free and publicly available data. Connect to your brokerage’s API, and the source code is plug-and-play. Automated Trading with R explains the broad topic of automated trading, starting …