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This forward-thinking book examines the future of public policy as
a discipline, both as it is taught and as it is practiced.
Critically assessing the limits of current theories and approaches,
leading scholars in the field highlight new models and
perspectives. Chapters present data on what is taught in policy
schools, using survey results from schools of public policy to
assess pedagogical scope and adequacy. The book also considers
policy work in government, and whether theory matches practice.
Reflecting on the future of policy making, policy advice,
implementation and governance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it
analyses how policy issues are now framed and debated, the range of
available tools, and how public compliance and popular support have
been eroded by the crisis. This book will be an essential guide to
re-thinking the field of public policy and its theories, methods,
and applications. It will help teachers, students, public managers
and policy-makers navigate the new, turbulent governance landscape
that lies ahead.
The book discusses the failure of many African governments in
providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the
citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources.
Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned,
explored and marketed by the machinery of the state. The problem
arises when the masses begin to challenge state access and
ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral
land, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and
resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal
or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty
in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government
officials. Paradoxically, in Niger Delta of Nigeria, as
discussed in the book, the state has unleashed unlimited might upon
all social groups and agitators, thereby leading to the increased
act of taking arms by such groups. When the informal resource
agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand social
and environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict
between them and the government security agencies. Sometimes, the
confrontation could be between them and other rival local resource
actors in the informal sector of their country’s economy bearing
in mind that the resources within their jurisdiction have become
the central determinant of national commonwealth.  It
is at that state of desperado to control access, extraction and
sale of natural resources in a State, by different armed groups
that the process of natural resources extraction qualifies as the
most visible cause of conflicts and crises around the African
continent that is the centrepiece of the book. This is quite
understandable given that mineral resource is a gift of nature; and
nature is that phenomenon that every human, group and nation claim
to represent, or, believe to represent them.
This book is the sixth volume of the successful book series on
Robot Operating System: The Complete Reference. The objective of
the book is to provide the reader with comprehensive coverage of
the Robot Operating Systems (ROS) and the latest trends and
contributed systems. ROS is currently considered as the primary
development framework for robotics applications. There are seven
chapters organized into three parts. Part I presents two chapters
on the emerging ROS 2.0 framework; in particular, ROS 2.0 is become
increasingly mature to be integrated into the industry. The first
chapter from Amazon AWS deals with the challenges that ROS 2
developers will face as they transition their system to be
commercial-grade. The second chapter deals with reactive
programming for both ROS1 and ROS. In Part II, two chapters deal
with advanced robotics, namely on the usage of robots in farms, and
the second deals with platooning systems. Part III provides three
chapters on ROS navigation. The first chapter deals with the use of
deep learning for ROS navigation. The second chapter presents a
detailed tuning guide on ROS navigation and the last chapter
discusses SLAM for ROS applications. I believe that this book is a
valuable companion for ROS users and developers to learn more ROS
capabilities and features.
This is the fourth volume of the successful series Robot Operating
Systems: The Complete Reference, providing a comprehensive overview
of robot operating systems (ROS), which is currently the main
development framework for robotics applications, as well as the
latest trends and contributed systems. The book is divided into
four parts: Part 1 features two papers on navigation, discussing
SLAM and path planning. Part 2 focuses on the integration of ROS
into quadcopters and their control. Part 3 then discusses two
emerging applications for robotics: cloud robotics, and video
stabilization. Part 4 presents tools developed for ROS; the first
is a practical alternative to the roslaunch system, and the second
is related to penetration testing. This book is a valuable resource
for ROS users and wanting to learn more about ROS capabilities and
features.
Seven-year-old Anthony Majok was torn from his happy African
village and began running for his life, due to ongoing civil war,
sparked by religious and political strife. The Christian Majok
family, along with many others, refused to take up the Islam faith.
Over the next 17 years, Majok and thousands of lost boys and girls
of Sudan battled well-armed soldiers, vicious animals, hunger and
disease as they fled across the continent. Set in South Sudan,
Ethiopia, Kenya and, finally, the United States, it is Majok's
unwavering faith that helps him withstand devastating hardship.
Journey of Faith conveys not only Majok's moving personal story, it
illuminates the reasons for decades of war in Sudan.
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