2-(Methylamino)-1-(2-methylphenyl)propan-1-one (2-methylmethcathinone, 2-MMC) is a synthetic cathinone stimulant. It is a ring-substituted cathinone, which is structurally related to methcathinone, 4-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone) and 3-methylmethcathinone. In Europe, 2-MMC is monitored by the...

Introduction -- Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks -- Ambient Intelligence -- Analysis of energy consumption patterns -- Based Human-Computer Interaction -- Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Function Imaging -- Biomedical Signal Processing and Analysis, Computer-Aided Diagnosis --...

Women face many hurdles in the workplace. Women who try to combine full-time employment and ongoing breastfeeding face particular struggles. They must express milk several times throughout their workdays, which requires various accommodations. To support these efforts, the United States passed...

The smart agriculture models depending on the Internet of Things (IoT) are highly successive to the enhancement of food production and minimizing resource consumption. The aerial examination in the agricultural sectors can offer important data to protect against various hurdles to effective...

This entry discusses how innovative and agile human resource management (HRM) practices are implemented in organizations. Innovative HRM practices embody new and different ways of carrying out HRM. Innovativeness and agility are relevant to all aspects of HRM. Our concern is with developing HRM...

Algorithmic fairness is a term describing the conceptualization, and remediation, of bias in rule-based procedures for making decisions about different types of individuals. At heart is a presumption that some ways of discriminating between people are undesirable (i.e., “unfair”), while...

In today's complex and challenging environment, leaders may be required to assume a mindset that accounts for and helps navigate competing tensions. We propose that experiencing a higher-than-usual level of four complementary psychological states—external openness, internal direction, other...

The central objective of this chapter is to investigate how Robinson's (1953) capital accumulation theory influenced Kaldor's (1956) theory of growth and income distribution, which culminated in the Cambridge Theorem. They stress that Robinson and Kaldor are responsible for the first generation...