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The evolution of path dependence
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The notion and interpretation of path dependence have been discussed and utilized in various social sciences during the last two decades. This innovative book provides significant new insights onto how the different applications of path dependence have developed and evolved. The authors suggest that there has been a definite evolution from applications of path dependence in the history of technology towards other fields of social science. They also discuss the various definitions of path dependence (strong or weak) and explore the potential applications of path dependence in new areas such as political economy and economic geography 1. Path dependence versus path-breaking crises : an alternative view / Bo Stråth -- 2. Second-degree path dependence : information costs, political objectives, and inappropriate small-farm settlement of the North American Great Plains / Gary D. Libecap -- 3. Revisiting railway history : the case of institutional change and path dependence / Lena Andersson-Skog -- 4. Path dependence in economic geography / Magnus Lagerholm and Anders Malmberg -- 5. The deceptive juncture : the temptation of attractive explanations and the reality of political life / PerOla Öberg and Kajsa Hallberg Adu -- 6. The role of institutions and organizations in shaping radical scientific innovations / Rogers Hollingsworth -- 7. Path dependence and public policy : lessons from economics / Stephen E. Margolis -- 8. Can path dependence explain institutional change? : two approaches applied to welfare state reform / Bernhard Ebbinghaus
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The euro : evolution and prospects
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The authors offer a sustained argument that the single currency as currently implemented does not promise to deliver prolonged growth. They contend that the economic impact of the euro, and its accompanying institutions, is likely to be destabilising and deflationary; that the political impact is profoundly undemocratic and that the social consequences are likely to be deleterious. They do not reject the concept of a single currency but are highly critical of policy arrangements such as the Stability and Growth Pact which govern the euro. The authors propose alternative policy and institutional arrangements within which the euro should be embedded. They demonstrate that these would have the benefits of a single currency whilst avoiding many of the potential costs identified by detractors 1. Introduction -- 2. From common market to EMU : an historical perspective on European economic and monetary integration -- 3. The conditions surrounding the launch of the euro -- 4. Monetary and financial arrangements accompanying the euro -- 5. Channels of monetary policy and implications for the euro -- 6. The causes of euro instability
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Towards a new regulatory framework for GM crops in the European Union : scientific, ethical, social and legal issues and the challenges ahead
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Aware of the significant potential of nascent biotechnologies, the European Economic Community (the predecessor to the European Union) was one of the first regions in the world to develop a regulatory framework for them. Back in the 1980s, the objective of Community member countries was to strengthen the standards of consensus and collaboration, and of environmental and health safety, as well as to promote an industrial sector of enormous potential. In spite of all effort, towards the end of the 1990s it was a widely accepted fact that a number of political and economic factors were blocking the development of biotechnology in Europe. From that crisis emerged what in some aspects is probably the most comprehensive and rigorous body of regulations for biotechnology in the world today. However, the very high technical level of those regulations did not prevent a new crisis which EU institutions aim to solve with a new regulatory framework. Thus, since March 2015, the way towards the third regulatory framework for Biotechnology in the EU has been open. Will this third regulatory framework finally offer sufficient guarantees to allow a healthy and sustainable development of biotechnology in the EU? What do we need to do so that 'third time is lucky'? In this work, a group of European and non-European experts, from different disciplines and approaches, discuss the past and the present, as well as the various possible futures, of Genetically Modified Crops in the EU
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Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses on the everyday struggles of indigenous farmers threatened with losing their land due to such state programmes as the realignment of the national border, ecotourism, social forestry and the establishment of a military cantonment. In implementing these programmes, state actors challenge farmers' right to land, instituting spaces of violence in which multiple forms of marginalisation overlap and are reinforced. Mapping how farmers react to these challenges emotionally and practically, the book argues that these land conflicts serve as a starting point for existentially charged disputes in which the survival efforts of farmers clash with the political imaginations and practices of the nation-state. The analysis shows that losing land represents more than being deprived of a material asset: it is nothing less than the extinction of ways of life
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Bad News for Refugees
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Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts act to legitimise political action which can have terrible consequences both on the lives of refugees and also on established migrant communities. Based on new research by the renowned Glasgow Media Group, Bad News for Refugees is essential reading for those concerned with the negative effects of media on public understanding and for the safety of vulnerable groups and communities in our society A brief history of contemporary migration and asylum -- Methods, explanations and perspectives on asylum -- Media content : press and TV samples, 2006 -- Case studies of media content, 2011 -- Impacts of media coverage on migrant communities in the United Kingdom
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Writing : a mosaic of new perspectives
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The origins of writing -- Writing and human development -- Working memory and expertise in writing -- The teaching of writing -- Creativity and emotions in writing -- Disorder of written language: diagnostic criteria, prevalence, and biological bases -- Testimonials
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OECD Environmental Strategy : 2004 Review of Progress
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OECD Environment Ministers agreed in 2001, on an ambitious Environmental Strategy for the first decade of the 21st century. The strategy sets out clear directions for environmentally sustainable policies and includes these key objectives: maintaining the integrity of ecosystems through the efficient management of natural resources; decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth; improving information for decision-making; measuring progress through indicators; the social and environmental interface; enhancing the quality of life; global environmental interdependence; improving governance and co-operation. In addition to highlighting the challenges and obstacles that remain if countries are to achieve the objectives by the planned date of 2010, this report assesses the progress that OECD countries have made, as well as in applying the 71 national actions they agreed on, as part of the Environmental Strategy. The book is for policy makers and environmental economists.
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Communicating space exploration : challenges, state of the art and future trends
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This book offers an enlightening analysis of the ways in which the communication of space explorations has evolved in response to political and social developments and the availability of new media and communication tools. Important challenges to effective communication are discussed, including the diversity of audiences, the risks associated with space missions, and continuing skepticism about the benefits of space research despite the many associated day-to-day applications. In addition, future trends in communication are examined with reference to likely trends in space exploration over the coming century. Besides space communication for the public, the need for targeted messaging to each group of stakeholders – decision makers, media, opinion leaders, the scientific community, and industry – is analyzed in detail. A series of case studies of particular space missions, both successful and unsuccessful, is presented to illustrate key issues. The book has significant implications for the communication of science in general and will be of interest to a wide audience, including space scientists, science communication professionals, people fascinated by exploration and discovery, stakeholders, and educators. What this book is about -- Science and Space in Society (by Rossella Spiga) -- Institutional Space Communication -- Space Communication for the Public -- Space Communication for the stakeholders -- Some Space missions and events as case studies on space communication -- Future trends in Space Communication.
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Modern econometric analysis : surveys on recent developments ; with 11 tables
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Traditional econometric analysis concentrate on classical methods which are far from suitable handling actual economic problems. Modern econometric analysis tries to develop new approaches from an economic perspective. As a consequence, there is less of a unified econometric theory than in former times. Specific branches which require specific methods have been established. Modern time series and duration analysis, panel data analysis, microeconometrics, evaluation methods, and specific data problems are examples of these new approaches. In this book leading German econometricians in different fields present survey articles of the most important new methods in econometrics. The book gives an overview of the field and it shows progress made in recent years and remaining problems. TOC:Developments and New Dimensions in Econometrics.- On the Specification and Estimation of Large Scale Simultaneous Structural Macroeconometric Models.- Dynamic Factor Models.- Unit Root Testing.- Autoregressive Distributed Lag Models and Cointegration.- Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis for Cointegrated Variables.- Econometric Analysis of High Frequency Data.- Using Quantile Regression for Duration Analysis.- Multilevel and Nonlinear Panel Data Models.- Nonparametric Models and Their Estimation.- Microeconometric Models and Anonymized Micro Data.- Ordered Response Models.- Some Recent Advances in Measurement Error Models and Methods.-The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - an Overview.- Survey Item Nonresponse and its Treatment
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Contemporary macroeconomics : new global disorder
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This book covers a lot of ground in contemporary macroeconomics, from fundamental theories such as market structures and equilibrium to emerging concepts that reflect the most critical challenges of modern times, including economic slowdowns, the resilience of public health systems, digitalization, environmental footprints, and many more. The COVID-19 outbreak has aggravated the recurrent problems of poverty and income inequality between countries, food insecurity and hunger, unemployment, and social disorders that have resulted in the exacerbation of political, economic, and trade tensions between countries. In view of the damaging consequences of the pandemic for the entire global economy, the book examines how existing macroeconomic tools and policies could be adapted to the new normal to ensure sustainable post-pandemic development and growth. The main text is interspersed with real-life illustrations and cases that demonstrate practical implications of the concepts under study. This makes the reading relevant and active. Every chapter starts with learning objectives and ends with a series of questions and quizzes that enable easier reinforcement of the course content. This book is written mainly for students, but it would be much useful to the broader public audience, including postgraduates, researchers, and business people who will be able to learn all recent updates about macroeconomics and the post-pandemic perspectives of the global economy.
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Managing closed-loop supply chains
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The increasing number of returns of products and the items used for their distribution has become an important topic for many companies all over the world due to increasing competition and environmental legislation. Closed-Loop Supply Chains (CLSC)may offer companies an unique opportunity to improve their profits on the one hand and to serve societal responsibility on the other hand. The management of CLSCdiffers in a number of ways from managing supply chains in general. The book gives insight in these differences and how these differences may be dealt with in practice, by offeringa concrete framework, introducing the different aspects related toCLSC (technical, organisational, planning and control, information, environmental and business economic) and their mutual relations, in a systematic logical way as well as cases clustered according to the inputs for a CLSC, like commercial returns, end-of-life returns, where for each case attention is paid to all the above mentioned aspects. The frame work and especially the cases from successful companies offer the reader an invalueable help to build up and improve CLSC. TOC:Introduction to closed loop supply chains: Managerial aspects of closed loop supply chains. Commercial returns in closed loop supply chains: Commercial returns related to sales actions: the L'Oreal case.- Commercial returns in computer electronics: the HP case.- Commercial returns related to long distance sales: the Wehkamp case. Repair and replacement in closed loop supply chains: The repair of electronic equipment: the Omron case.- Closed loop supply chain based contracts: the RetreadCo case.- The closed loop supply chain of service parts: the Whirlpool case. End-of-use closed loop supply chains: At the end of lease contracts: the Oce case.- Reusing mobile phones: the Cellular case.- Reusing car engines: the Daimler-Chrysler case. End-of-life closed loop supply chains: The Dutch network for end-of-life large white goods.- The closed loop supply chain of tires: the Thessaloniki initiative. Production in closed loop supply chains: Reversed logistics in the pharmaceutical industry: the Schering case.- Reversed logistics in the electronics industry: the NEC case. Distribution in closed loop supply chains: The chip in crate: the Heineken case.- Maritime returns: the Blue Container case. Cabotage: the Port of Rotterdam case. Summary and conclusions on closed loop supply chains: Lessons learned and future developments
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The palgrave international handbook of gender and the military
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The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military' provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which militaries issues and military forces are shaped by gender. The chapters provide detailed accounts of key issues, informed by examples from original research in a wealth of different national contexts. This 'Handbook' includes coverage of conceptual approaches to the study of gender and militaries, gender and the organisation of state military forces, gender as it pertains to military forces in action, transitions and transgressions within militaries, gender and non-state military forces, and gender in representations of military personnel and practices. With contributions from a range of both established and early career scholars, 'The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military' is an essential guide to current debates on gender and contemporary military issues
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Addressing Forced Displacement through Development Planning and Co-operation : Guidance for Donor Policy Makers and Practitioners
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Despite the increasingly protracted nature of situations of forced displacement, development policy makers and practitioners have tended to overlook the longevity of displacement. Forced displacement has long been viewed primarily as an emergency humanitarian issue by providers of development co-operation and the focus of the international community has predominantly been on addressing the immediate protection and short-term humanitarian needs of forcibly displaced persons. However, with increasing levels of new and protracted displacement, and key commitments such as the 2030 Agenda, donors are looking at the role of development actors and financing in supporting sustainable and comprehensive solutions to forced displacement. This Guidance, therefore, provides a clear and practical introduction to the challenges faced in working in situations of forced displacement, and provides guidance to donor staff seeking to mainstream responses to forced displacement into development planning and co-operation. While recognising that donor policies and responses are constantly evolving, this guidance proposes that donors responding to these situations prioritise three broad areas of work, where they can best contribute to existing capacities at the national, regional and global levels. It also identifies twelve actions, grouped under four key principles, outlining what donors can do to reinforce the capacities of key actors to respond to refugees and Internally Displaced Persons at the national, regional and global levels, and to advance comprehensive solutions.
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Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments
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In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets subjected to extreme stellar radiation and plasma conditions. It is shown that such studies will help us to understand how terrestrial planets and their atmospheres, including the early Venus, Earth and Mars, evolved during the host star’s active early phase. The book presents an analysis of findings from Hubble Space Telescope observations of transiting exoplanets, as well as applications of advanced numerical models for characterizing the upper atmosphere structure and stellar environments of exoplanets. The authors also address detections of atoms and molecules in the atmosphere of “hot Jupiters” by NASA’s Spitzer telescope. The observational and theoretical investigations and discoveries presented are both timely and important in the context of the next generation of space telescopes.
The book is divided into four main parts, grouping chapters on exoplanet host star radiation and plasma environments, exoplanet upper atmosphere and environment observations, exoplanet and stellar magnetospheres, and exoplanet observation and characterization. The book closes with an outlook on the future of this research field
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Harlem crossroads : black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century
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A riot of images; Harlem and the pursuit of modernity -- Documenting Harlem: images and afterlives -- From Black voices to Black power: Richard Wright and the trial of documentary -- Ralph Ellison, photographer -- Photo-text capital: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the uses of Harlem -- Dodging and burning: the writer and the image after the Civil Rights Era -- Coda looking back: Toni Morrison and the return to Plato's cave
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Women and politics : paths to power and political influence
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Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- Women's Paths to Power -- The Gender Gap in Elections and Public Opinion -- Gender and the Decision to Run for Office -- Women on the Campaign Trail -- Women in Local Politics and Government -- Women in Congress and the State Legislatures -- Women in the Executive Branch -- Women in the Judiciary. "This book examines the role of women in politics from the early women's movement to the female politicians in power today. Focusing on women whose stories have not yet been told, this book includes new analysis and scholarship on the experiences and viewpoints of conservative women, women of color, LGBT women, and millennial women"--
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Europas vergessene Visionäre : Rückbesinnung in Zeiten akuter Krisen
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A united Europe needs new visions to take it forward. This is even more relevant in times of acute crises, such as the financial and banking crisis, the eurozone crisis or the refugee crisis, and in times of other events which threaten solidarity in Europe, such as Brexit.In his book ‘Europas vergessene Visionäre’ (Europe’s forgotten Visionaries), Winfried Böttcher reveals how visions once arose. This outstanding work brings together important European thinkers with great visions for Europe who have been unfairly forgotten. In doing so, it builds on Böttcher’s successful standard reference work ‘Klassiker des europäischen Denkens’ (Quintessential Figures in European Thinking).Just like quintessential thinkers, visionaries also contribute to validating the past and the present and to shaping the future. In this book, 25 eminent authors from 18 universities and academic institutions focus on these ‘forgotten’ visionaries for Europe from 13 countries. They reveal to us how different visions can be in depicting the future. Ein vereintes Europa braucht neue Visionen. Dies gilt umso mehr in Zeiten akuter Krisen, wie der Finanz- und Bankenkrise, der Eurokrise oder der Flüchtlingskrise, sowie anderer, den Zusammenhalt in Europa gefährdender Ereignisse, wie dem Brexit.In Europas vergessene Visionäre zeigt Winfried Böttcher, wie einst Visionen entstanden. Wichtige, aber zu Unrecht etwas in Vergessenheit geratene europäische Denker mit großen Europavisionen geben sich in diesem bedeutenden Werk ein Stelldichein. Das Buch knüpft damit an das kulturhistorische Standardwerk Klassiker des europäischen Denkens an. Wie die Klassiker tragen auch die Visionäre dazu bei, sich vergangener und gegenwärtiger Friedens- und Europavorstellungen zu vergewissern, um die Zukunft des Kontinents zu gestalten. Renommierte Historiker, Sozial-, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftler aus Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen in ganz Europa haben Beiträge zu diesem Buch verfasst und laden den Leser dazu ein, Europas „vergessene“ Visionäre, die intellektuellen Ressourcen ihrer Zeit und ihre innovativen Zukunftsbilder kennenzulernen.
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Handbook of research on European business and entrepreneurship : towards a theory of internationalization
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pt. 1. Introductory chapters -- pt. 2. Country studies -- pt. 3. Constituents of the United Kingdom -- pt. 4. Conclusion This unique Handbook illustrates how entrepreneurs across Europe tackle internationalization. This timely and important book identifies patterns and builds a theory of international entrepreneurship in Europe
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The complete letters of Henry James / general editors Michael Anesko, The Pennsylvania State University; Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton University (project director) ; [7], Volume 1, 1884-1886 / Henry James ; edited by Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias ; Katie Sommer, associate editor ; with an introduction by Adrian Poole ; Volume 1
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This fourteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize his income
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The function and use of TO and OF in multi-word units
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"The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. Looking at historical roots and earlier corpus linguistic research, this study demonstrates that both OF and TO have clear semantic and pragmatic functions. The book analyses corpora from three types of text: spoken, semi-prepared spoken such as speeches, and written fiction to explore how the two words are used in English overall and what genre-specific characteristics stand out"--
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European Muslims transforming the public sphere : religious participation in the arts, media and civil society
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Review of literature and theoretical framework -- German Muslim identity-an inside perspective -- Participatory culture: strong counterpublics -- Participatory culture: soft counterpublics -- Participatory culture: beyond counterpublics
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Organizational and technological implications of cognitive machines : designing future information management systems
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"This book addresses the possible implications of cognitive machines for current and future organizations"--Provided by publisher
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The untold story of the talking book
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"This work is the first history of recorded literature since Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. It traces the tradition from phonographic books made on wax cylinders to talking books made for blinded soldiers returning from the First World War and, much later, the commercial audiobooks heard today. Addressing the vexed relationship between orality and print, the author shows how talking books developed both as a way of reproducing printed books and as a way of overcoming their limitations. In a wide-ranging overview, he charts the talking book's evolution across numerous media (records, tapes, discs, digital files), its reception by a bemused public, and impassioned disputes over its legitimacy. Testimonials drawn from the archives of charities for war-blinded veterans and pioneering audio publishers including Caedmon, Books on Tape, and Audible vividly recreate how audiences over the past century have responded to literature read out loud. This book poses a series of conceptual questions too: What exactly is the relationship between spoken and printed texts? How does the experience of listening to books compare to that of reading them? What influence does a book's narrator have over its reception? What methods of close listening are appropriate to such narratives? What new formal possibilities are opened up by sound recording? Sound technology turns out to be every bit as important as screens to the book's ongoing transformation. In sum, this book breaks from convention by treating audiobooks as a distinctive art form that has profoundly influenced the way we read."--
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Nanodroplets
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"Nanodroplets, the basis of complex and advanced nanostructures such as quantum rings, quantum dots, and quantum dot clusters for future electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices, have attracted the interdisciplinary interest of chemists, physicists, and engineers. This book combines experimental and theoretical analyses of nanosized droplets which reveal many attractive properties. Coverage includes nanodroplet synthesis, structure, unique behaviors, and their nanofabrication, including chapters on focused ion beam, atomic force microscopy, molecular beam epitaxy, and the "vapor-liquid- solid" route. Particular emphasis is given to the behavior of metallic nanodroplets, water nanodroplets, and nanodroplets in polymer and metamaterial nanocomposites. The contributions of leading scientists and their research groups will provide readers with deeper insight into the chemical and physical mechanisms, properties, and potential applications of various nanodroplets." --
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Wandering Greeks : the ancient Greek diaspora from the age of Homer to the death of Alexander the Great
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"Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere--or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons"--
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Geospatial research : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications
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"This is a multi-volume publication highlighting critical topics related to geospatial analysis, geographic information systems, and geospatial technologies, exploring multidisciplinary applications of geographic information systems and technologies in addition to the latest trends and developments in the field"--Provided by publisher Fundamental concepts and theories -- Development and design methodologies -- Tools and technologies -- Utilization and application -- Organizational and social implications -- Emerging trends
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Celebrity : capitalism and the making of fame
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"It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved: Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media? Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption"--
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Explorers' botanical notebook : in the footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and Hooker
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"This book follows the journey of over 80 pioneering botanists and the important findings and collections they have made. It includes each journey and routes taken with the help of maps and personal notes. Each story explains the complications and difficulties that each botanist had to overcome but the many discoveries made along the way."--
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Care and cure : an introduction to philosophy of medicine
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Concepts. Health ; Disease ; Death -- Models and kinds. Causation and kinds ; Holism and reductionism ; Controversial diseases -- Evidence and inference. Evidence in medicine ; Objectivity and the social structure of science ; Inference ; Effectiveness, skepticism, and alternatives ; Diagnosis and screening -- Values and policy. Psychiatry: care or control? ; Policy ; Public health
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Is informal normal? : towards more and better jobs in developing countries ; [an OECD Development Centre perspective]
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The informal sector deprives states of revenues and workers of social protection. It also, however, frequently constitutes the most dynamic part of the economy and creates massive employment. Informal employment is ubiquitous and growing. The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made the management of informal employment even more challenging. Responding to this emerging challenge is critical, not only for the well being of millions of workers but also for social development. Is Informal Normal? provides evidence for policy makers on how to deal with this issue of crucial importance f
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Hollywood : a very short introduction
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"Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. Using well-known movies, stars, and directors, the book shows that the elements we take to be a natural part of the Hollywood experience--stars, genre-driven storytelling, blockbuster franchises, etc.--are the product of cultural, political, and commercial forces"--
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Fiscal policy and interest rates in the European Union
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Fiscal Policy and Interest Rates in the European Union is a comprehensive study concerned with the potential effects of fiscal policy on financial markets in the European Union. It takes into account the gradual liberalization of capital movements throughout Western Europe and the institutional framework of the European monetary system. Klaas Knot takes a fresh approach to the impact of budget deficits on interest rates, especially in relation to international financial integration, and concludes that the increases in European budget deficits since the early 1970s have raised interest rates in the long term throughout the Union. In conclusion he argues that balanced budget deficits are necessary to maintain low interest rates. This important new book will be of interest to students, academics and policymakers concerned with monetary and public economics
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Ne bis in idem in EU law
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction. The 'European' ne bis in idem principle: substance, sources, and scope Bas van Bockel; 2. Ne bis in idem in the EU and ECHR legal orders: a matter of uniform interpretation? Xavier Groussot; 3. Ne bis in idem in the case law of the European Court of Justice Daniel Sarmiento; 4. Parallel proceedings in EU competition law: rethinking ne bis in idem as a limiting principle Renato Nazzini; 5. Ne bis in idem in tax offences in EU law and ECHR law Peter Wattel; 6. Conclusions Bas van Bockel "Questions of the application and interpretation of the ne bis in idem principle in EU law continue to surface in the case law of different European courts. The primary purpose of this book is to provide guidance and to address important issues in connection with the ne bis in idem principle in EU law. The development of the ne bis in idem principle in the EU legal order illustrate the difficulty of reconciling pluralism with the need for doctrinal coherence, and highlights the tensions between the requirements of effectiveness and the protection of fundamental rights in EU law. The ne bis in idem principle is a 'litmus test' of fundamental rights protection in the EU. This book explores the principle, and the way the Court of Justice of the European Union has interpreted it, in the context of competition law and the areas of freedom, security and justice, human rights law and tax law"--
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Libraries in the manuscript age
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The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia, Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars and men of religion were clearly dedicated to collecting books and sought to protect these fragile objects against the various hazards that threatened their survival. Many of these treasured books are long gone, but there remain hosts of evidence enabling one to reconstruct the collections to which they belonged, found in ancient buildings, literary accounts, archival documentation and, most crucially, catalogues. With such material at hand or, in some cases, the manuscripts of a certain library which have come down to us, it is possible to reflect on the nature of these libraries of the past, the interests of their owners, and their role in the intellectual history of the manuscript age
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Stalinism revisited : the establishment of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
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This book is a comparative framework for interpreting the relationship between late Stalinism and the communist takeovers in former Eastern Europe. A bonus for the volume is that it also provides detailed, sectorial analyses for the Romanian case, something that the field particularly lacks. The structure of the volume provides grounds for both reinterpretation and an input of fresh insights and research on the nature, dynamics, and consequences of Stalinism in Eastern and Central Europe. It contains three types of contributions: (a) general analyses of phenomena associated with the category of Stalinism; (b) case studies focusing upon aspects of establishment of communist regimes in each of the Eastern European countries; (c) historiographical evaluations of the literature dealing with the targeted period of time
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Protein tyrosine phosphatase control of metabolism
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Tyrosine phosphorylation is a rapid and reversible protein modification catalyzed by the yin and yang activities of protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). A multitude of PTPs have been implicated in human disease, with a growing number of PTPs now known to play major roles in prevalent metabolic diseases including obesity and type 2 diabetes. Recent studies into PTP function in the context of metabolism highlight the importance of understanding the specific substrates and binding partners of these enzymes, the regulation of PTP activity, and the cell/tissue specificity of PTP functions. This volume contains chapters which highlight many aspects of PTP function in the context of metabolism.--
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Heat, power and light : revolutions in energy services
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What happens when a radically-new fuel or technology transforms the energy system? How does the energy system evolve at different stages of economic development? What are the implications for people's lives and their environment? Building on an award-winning article, in this exciting book Roger Fouquet investigates the impacts of technological innovations and economic development over the last seven hundred years on our ability to provide heat, power, transport and light. Using a unique data set, collected over a decade, the analysis identifies the forces driving revolutions in energy services. It highlights the tendency of markets to produce ever-cheaper energy services, which in turn incite greater energy consumption. It also examines how these revolutions affect people's well-being and the environment. The framework, analysis and insights in this book offer an original perspective on future energy markets, transitions to low-carbon economies and strategies for addressing climate change. Heat, Power and Light is an invaluable and unique contribution to this profoundly important topic. As such it will appeal to a wide audience of energy economists, climate change analysts, policymakers, economic and technology historians and economists more broadly
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Women Entrepreneurs in SMEs : Realising the Benefits of Globalisation and the Knowledge-based Economy
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The first OECD Conference on Women Entrepreneurs in SMEs in 1997 highlighted their contribution to innovation and job creation. Since that time, women's entrepreneurship has been burgeoning. Women entrepreneurs constitute a growing share of SME owners, with higher than average start-up rates in several OECD Member and non-member countries. Eliminating obstacles to the creation and development of firms by women and creating a level playing field for women business owners is vital for a thriving entrepreneurial sector and important for national growth strategies. Women business owners are creati
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Handbook of research on computational intelligence applications in bioinformatics
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"This book examines emergent research in handling real-world problems through the application of various computation technologies and techniques by featuring theoretical concepts and best practices in the areas of computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, big data, and bio-inspired computing"--
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Big data systems : a 360-degree approach
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<P>Preface <br />Author Bios <br />Acknowledgements <br />List of Figures <br />List of Tables <br /><strong>Introduction to Big Data Systems </strong><br />1.1 INTRODUCTION: REVIEW OF BIG DATA SYSTEMS<br />1.2 UNDERSTANDING BIG DATA <br />1.3 TYPE OF DATA: TRANSACTIONAL OR ANALYTICAL<br />1.4 REQUIREMENTS AND CHALLENGES OF BIG DATA <br />1.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />1.6 FURTHER READING <br />1.7 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Architecture and Organization of Big Data Systems </strong><br />2.1 ARCHITECTURE FOR BIG DATA SYSTEMS <br />2.2 ORGANIZATION OF BIG DATA SYSTEMS: CLUSTERS<br />2.3 CLASSIFICATION OF CLUSTERS: DISTRIBUTED MEMORY VS. SHARED MEMORY<br />2.4 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />2.5 FURTHER READING <br />2.6 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Cloud Computing for Big Data </strong><br />3.1 CLOUD COMPUTING <br />3.2 VIRTUALIZATION <br />3.3 PROCESSOR VIRTUALIZATION <br />3.4 CONTAINERIZATION <br />3.5 VIRTUALIZATION OR CONTAINERIZATION <br />3.6 FOG COMPUTING <br />3.7 EXAMPLES <br />3.8 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />3.9 FURTHER READING <br />3.10 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <br /><br /><strong>HADOOP: An Efficient Platform for Storing and Processing Big Data</strong> <br />4.1 REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESSING AND STORING BIG DATA <br />4.2 HADOOP -- THE BIG PICTURE <br />4.3 HADOOP DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM <br />4.4 MAPREDUCE <br />4.5 HBASE <br />4.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />4.7 FURTHER READING <br />4.8 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Enhancements in Hadoop </strong><br />5.1 ISSUES WITH HADOOP <br />5.2 YARN <br />5.3 PIG <br />5.4 HIVE <br />5.5 DREMEL <br />5.6 IMPALA <br />5.7 DRILL <br />5.8 DATA TRANSFER <br />5.9 AMBARI <br />5.10 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />5.11 FURTHER READING <br />5.12 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Spark </strong><br />6.1 LIMITATIONS OF MAPREDUCE <br />6.2 INTRODUCTION TO SPARK <br />6.3 SPARK CONCEPTS <br />6.4 SPARK SQL <br />6.5 SPARK MLLIB <br />6.6 STREAM BASED SYSTEM <br />6.7 SPARK STREAMING <br />6.8 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />6.9 FURTHER READING <br />6.10 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>NoSQL Systems </strong><br />7.1 INTRODUCTION <br />7.2 HANDLING BIG DATA SYSTEMS -- PARALLEL RDBMS <br />7.3 EMERGENCE OF NOSQL SYSTEMS <br />7.4 KEY-VALUE DATABASE <br />7.5 DOCUMENT-ORIENTED DATABASE <br />7.6 COLUMN-ORIENTED DATABASE <br />7.7 GRAPH DATABASE <br />7.8 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />7.9 FURTHER READING <br />7.10 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>NewSQL Systems </strong><br />8.1 INTRODUCTION<br />8.2 TYPES OF NEWSQL SYSTEMS <br />8.3 FEATURES <br />8.4 NEWSQL SYSTEMS: CASE STUDIES <br />8.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />8.6 FURTHER READING<br />8.7 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <br /><strong>Networking for Big Data</strong> <br />9.1 NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR BIG DATA SYSTEMS<br />9.2 CHALLENGES AND REQUIREMENTS <br />9.3 NETWORK PROGRAMMABILITY AND SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING <br />9.4 LOW LATENCY AND HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSFER<br />9.5 AVOIDING TCP INCAST -- ACHIEVING LOW LATENCY<br />AND HIGH THROUGHPUT <br />9.6 FAULT TOLERANCE<br />9.7 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />9.8 FURTHER READING <br />9.9 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Security for Big Data </strong><br />10.1 INTRODUCTION <br />10.2 SECURITY REQUIREMENTS <br />10.3 SECURITY: ATTACK TYPES AND MECHANISMS <br />10.4 ATTACK DETECTION AND PREVENTION <br />10.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />10.6 FURTHER READING <br />10.7 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Privacy for Big Data</strong> <br />11.1 INTRODUCTION <br />11.2 UNDERSTANDING BIG DATA AND PRIVACY <br />11.3 PRIVACY VIOLATIONS AND THEIR IMPACT <br />11.4 TYPES OF PRIVACY VIOLATIONS <br />11.5 PRIVACY PROTECTION SOLUTIONS AND THEIR LIMITATIONS <br />11.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />11.7 FURTHER READING <br />11.8 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <br /><br /><strong>High Performance Computing for Big Data </strong><br />12.1 INTRODUCTION <br />12.2 SCALABILITY: NEED FOR HPC <br />12.3 GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT <br />12.4 TENSOR PROCESSING UNIT <br />12.5 HIGH SPEED INTERCONNECTS <br />12.6 MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE <br />12.7 OPENMP <br />12.8 OTHER FRAMEWORKS <br />12.9 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />12.10 FURTHER READING <br />12.11 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Deep Learning with Big Data </strong><br />13.1 INTRODUCTION <br />13.2 FUNDAMENTALS <br />13.3 NEURAL NETWORK <br />13.4 TYPES OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORK <br />13.5 BIG DATA APPLICATIONS USING DEEP LEARNING<br />13.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />13.7 FURTHER READING <br />13.8 EXERCISE QUESTIONS <strong>Big Data Case Studies </strong><br />14.1 GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE <br />14.2 FACEBOOK MESSAGES APPLICATION <br />14.3 HADOOP FOR REAL-TIME ANALYTICS <br />14.4 BIG DATA PROCESSING AT UBER <br />14.5 BIG DATA PROCESSING AT LINKEDIN <br />14.6 DISTRIBUTED GRAPH PROCESSING AT GOOGLE <br />14.7 FUTURE TRENDS <br />14.8 CONCLUDING REMARKS <br />14.9 FURTHER READING <br />14.10 EXERCISE QUESTIONS Bibliography <br />Index
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Dance [and] theory
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Both the identity of dance and that of theory are at risk as soon as the two intertwine. This anthology collects observations by choreographers and scholars, dancers, dramaturges and dance theorists in an effort to trace the multiple ways in which dance and theory correlate and redefine each other: What is the nature of their relationship? How can we outline a theory of dance from our particular historical perspective which will cover dance both as a practice and as an academic concept? The contributions examine which concepts, interdependencies and discontinuities of dance and theory are relevant today and promise to engage us in the future. They address crucial topics of the current debate in dance and performance studies such as artistic research, aesthetics, politics, visuality, archives, and the »next generation«
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Writing self, writing empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of the Indo-Persian state secretary
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"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan Brahman (d. ca. 1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four emperors: Akbar (1556–1605), Jahangir (1605–1627), Shah Jahan (1628–1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658–1707), the last of the “Great Mughals” whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire’s power, territorial reach, and global influence.Chandar Bhan was a high-caste Hindu who worked for a series of Muslim monarchs and other officials, forming powerful friendships along the way; his experience bears vivid testimony to the pluralistic atmosphere of the Mughal court, particularly during the reign of Shah Jahan, the celebrated builder of the Taj Mahal. But his widely circulated and emulated works also touch on a range of topics central to our understanding of the court’s literary, mystical, administrative, and ethical cultures, while his letters and autobiographical writings provide tantalizing examples of early modern Indo-Persian modes of self-fashioning. Chandar Bhan’s oeuvre is a valuable window onto a crucial, though surprisingly neglected, period of Mughal cultural and political history
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Women and gender in modern Latin America : historical sources and interpretations
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"In Latin American history, women have been both active players and passive recipients of state-inflicted policies. The explosion of research over the last fifteen years is testiment to how much we still have to learn about their experiences. Women and Gender in Modern Latin America is a collection of both secondary sources and primary sources, many translated for the first time, that brings the story of women's involvement in modern Latin American history up to date. Beginning with the bitter, prolonged wars of Spanish American independence, the collection touches on both the rise of the new state governments and women's increasing involvement in politics, as well as their roles in daily life and as the heads of many households. The book also examines the expectations, responsibilities and limitations facing women in their varied roles, touching on feminism, labor and economics, revolution, and sex and motherhood. Pamela Murray draws on the best new research to inform the chapters, and has pulled together a variety of fascinating primary sources to bolster the chapters, including interviews, speeches, testimony, images, government documents, and private correspondence. Whether for a course specifically on women in Latin America, or as an addition to a Modern Latin America survey course, Women and Gender in Modern Latin America provides a comprehensive overview of the experience of women across Latin America"-- "A collection of documents that illuminate women's roles in modern Latin American history, including current writing by scholars in the field, and primary sources such as interviews, speeches, testimony, government documents, and private correspondence, with introductions by the editor. Topics covered include feminism; labor and economics; revolution; and sex, marriage, and motherhood"--
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American cinema of the 1950s : themes and variations
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Introduction: movies and the 1950s / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Movies and landscapes / Kristen Hatch -- Movies and the new faces of masculinity / Sumiko Higashi -- Movies and the paradox of female stardom / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Movies and our secret lives / Michael DeAngelis -- Movies and the walls of privacy / Jon Lewis -- Movies and growing up . . . absurd / Barry Keith Grant -- Movies and the crack of doom / Murray Pomerance -- Movies and the search for proportion / Adrienne L. McLean -- Movies and allegories of ambivalence / Arthur Knight -- Movies and the racial divide / Timeline: The 1950s -- Select academy awards, 1950-1959.
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Smart design : disruption, crisis, and the reshaping of urban spaces
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"This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It unravels several urban transformations in dualities: economic relationality and centrality, technological flattening and polarisation, and spatial division and fusion. These dualities are interdependent; concurrent, coexisting, and contradictory, they are jointly disrupting and reshaping many aspects of contemporary cities and spaces. The book draws on a suite of international studies, experiences, and observations, including case studies in Beijing, Singapore, and Boston, to reveal how these processes are impacting urban design, development, and policy approaches. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many changes already in motion, and provides an extreme circumstance for reflecting on and imagining urban spaces. These analyses, thoughts, and visions inform an urban imaginary of smart design that incorporates change, flexibility, collaboration, and experimentation, which together forge a paradigm of urban thinking. This paradigm builds upon the modernist and postmodernist urban design traditions and extends them in new directions, responding to and anticipating a changing urban environment. The book proposes a smart design manifesto to stimulate thought, trigger debate, and, hopefully, influence a new generation of urban thinkers and smart designers. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of urban design, planning, architecture, urban development, and urban studies"--
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Von Government zu Governance : direkte und deliberative Demokratie in europäischen Mehrebenensystemen
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This volume researches concepts of direct, participatory and deliberative democracy, their structures and procedures, and the role of actors. On the one hand, the volume focuses on questions of institutionalisation and the context sensitivity of participation-centred procedures in European federal and regional states. On the other hand, the volume addresses the question of the role that actors at the supranational level play or can play in the renewal of democratic processes. The state of research and its findings in theoretical and empirical democracy research provide the overarching conceptual framework for the volume. With contributions by Elisabeth Alber, Eva Maria Belser, Peter Bussjäger, Carmen Descamps, Annegret Eppler, Anna Gamper, Andreas Kiefer, Karl Kössler, Sabine Kropp, Olaf Leiße, Melanie Plangger, Julian Plottka, Wolf J. Schünemann, Christoph Schramek, Teija Tiilikainen, Jens Woelk and Carolin Zwilling. Der Band geht aus multidisziplinärer Sicht auf Konzepte der direkten, partizipativen und deliberativen Demokratie, auf deren Strukturen und Verfahren und auf die Rolle von Akteuren ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen einerseits Fragen der Institutionalisierung und Kontextsensibilität beteiligungszentrierter Verfahren in europäischen Bundes- und Regionalstaaten, andererseits befasst sich der Band mit der Frage, welche Rolle den Akteuren auf supranationaler Ebene im Bereich der Erneuerung von demokratischen Prozessen zu-kommt bzw. zukommen kann. Forschungsstand und -ergebnisse in der theoretischen und der empirischen Demokratieforschung stellen den übergeordneten konzeptionellen Rahmen zum Band dar. Mit Beiträgen von Elisabeth Alber, Eva Maria Belser, Peter Bussjäger, Carmen Descamps, Annegret Eppler, Anna Gamper, Andreas Kiefer, Karl Kössler, Sabine Kropp, Olaf Leiße, Melanie Plangger, Julian Plottka, Wolf J. Schünemann, Christoph Schramek, Teija Tiilikainen, Jens Woelk und Carolin Zwilling.
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Energy recovery technology for building applications : green innovation towards a sustainable future
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This book discusses energy recovery technology, a green innovation that can be used in buildings. This technology reduces energy consumption in buildings and provides energy savings to conventional mechanical ventilation systems. Divided into eight chapters, the book provides in-depth technical information, state-of-the-art research, and latest developments in the energy recovery technology field. Case-studies describe worldwide applications of energy recovery technology and its integrated system for building services. This book will be used as a general and technical reference book for students, engineers, professionals, practitioners, scientists, and researchers seeking to reduce energy consumption of buildings in various climatic conditions. Presents an overview of energy consumption scenarios in buildings and the needs for energy-efficient technologies at regional and global levels; Explains models and methods of energy recovery technology performance evaluation; Inspires further research into energy recovery technology for building applications.
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Sports law and policy in the European Union
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The commercialisation of sport in Europe raises important questions concerning the most appropriate method of regulating sporting activity. The development of the European Union and the internationalisation of sporting competition has added an international dimension to this debate. Yet sport is not simply a business to be regulated in the same way as any other industry. It is also a social and cultural activity. Can regulation at EU level reconcile this tension? Adopting a distinctive legal and political analysis, this book argues that the EU is receptive to the sports sectors claims for special treatment before the law. The book investigates the birth of EU sports law and policy by examining: the Bosman ruling and other significant European Court of Justice decisions; the relationship between sport and EU competition law; the possibility of sport being exempt from EU law; the relationship between sport and the EU Treaty; the development of a EU sports policy. This book is essential for those interested in the major issues facing sport and its relationship with the EU. It is essential for those interested in sports law, the politics of sport and EU integration. It offers important insights into these debates and raises key questions concerning the appropriate theoretical tools for analysing European integration
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The fourth industrial revolution in Africa : exploring the development implications of smart technologies in Africa
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This edited volume, the third in a three-volume set, discusses implications of The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Africa. By rebuilding natural ecosystems, linking billions to digital networks, and better managing assets, the world may be able to undo the damage done by the industrial revolutions. There are, however, significant concerns that institutions will not be able to adapt, that governments will not adopt and regulate new technologies to reap their benefits, that power shifts will result in serious new security threats, that inequality will increase, and that societies will break apart. Written by an international panel of experts, analyzes the potential of smart technology across sectors and industries in Africa to bring about long-term, sustainable growth.
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Good practice in der institutionellen Kommunikation : von der Deskription zur Bewertung in der Angewandten Gesprächsforschung
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How can we identify successful linguistic action in recordings of institutional conversations? What is the basis for evaluation and how can it be collected empirically? The contributions analytically elaborate concrete forms of good practice for different institutional settings Der Themenband widmet sich der Frage, wie man in institutionellen Gesprächen Formen gelingenden sprachlichen Handelns identifizieren kann. Drei theoretisch-methodisch ausgerichtete Beiträge diskutieren, was Bewertungsgrundlagen dafür sind, wie man diese empirisch erheben kann und wie good practice im Gespräch zu identifizieren ist. Sieben empirisch ausgerichtete Beiträge arbeiten analytisch konkrete Formen von good practice für verschiedene institutionelle Settings heraus, vom Bildungs- und Gesundheitswesen über die Privatwirtschaft bis zur rechtlichen Betreuung. Das Schlusskapitel fasst die Erträge der in enger Kooperation entstandenen Beiträge in systematischer Form zusammen. Der Themenband bildet dadurch den gegenwärtigen State of the Art der noch jungen Forschung zu good practice in der Angewandten Gesprächsforschung ab
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Organizational change for corporate sustainability
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"Since this classic book was first published in 2003, sustainability has increasingly become mainstream business for leading corporations, whilst the topic itself has also been a hotly debated political issue across the globe. The models originally discussed in the book have become more relevant with ever more examples of organizations at later stages in the development of corporate sustainability.This new edition integrates new research and brings illustrative case studies up to date to reflect how new approaches affect change and leadership. For the first time, a new positive model of a future sustainable world is included - strengthened by references to the global financial crisis, burgeoning world population numbers, peak oil and the rise of China. With new case studies including BP's Gulf oil spill and Tokyo Electric Company's nuclear reactor disaster, this new edition will again be core reading for students and researchers of sustainability and business, organizational change and corporate social responsibility"--
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Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe : Results from Empirical and Comparative Research
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Gert Pickel, Prof. Dr., Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Institute for Practical Theology, University of Leipzig. Olaf Müller, research associate at the Cluster of Excellence 'Religion and Politics in Pre-modern and Modern Cultures' and at the Institute of Sociology at University of Münster. During the last decades, the academic special field of sociology of religion, as well as the general public, has witnessed lively debates on the new role and significance of religion in modern societies. Not only perceptions such as a clash of civilizations or a return of religion, but also a renewed discussion on the relationship between religion and politics seem to stimulate the above mentioned questions. Meanwhile, a considerable quantity of empirical studies focused on the revitalization of religion or the prospects of a continuing secularization have been conducted. The topic of this publication deals with the results derived from a wide range of these studies, a large number of them focused on comparative analyses about the situation of churches and religion in Europe.
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Facebook for dummies
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Keeping in Mind What You Canâ#x80;#x99;t Do on FacebookYou canâ#x80;#x99;t lie; You canâ#x80;#x99;t be twelve; You canâ#x80;#x99;t troll, spam, or harass; You canâ#x80;#x99;t upload illegal content; Realizing How Facebook Is Different from Other Social Sites; How You Can Use Facebook; Getting information; Keeping up with long-distance friends; Moving to a new city; Getting a job; Reunions; Organizing movements; Communicating in times of trouble; Chapter 2 Adding Your Own Face to Facebook; Signing Up for Facebook; Getting Started; Step 1: Find Your Friends; Step 2: Profile Picture; What to Expect in Your Inbox; Confirmation Hiding posts and peopleNews Feed preferences; Sharing Your Own News; Status updates; What should I say?; Beyond the basic status update; Controlling who sees your posts; Chapter 5 Timeline: The Story of You; Scrolling Through Time; First Impressions; Add a profile picture thatâ#x80;#x99;s already on Facebook; Add a profile picture from your hard drive; Add a frame to your profile picture; Telling Your Story; Posts; Status; Life events; Editing posts; The left column; All About Me; Work and Education; Sections; Your Friends and Your Timeline; Chapter 6 Privacy and Safety on Facebook Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About Facebook For Dummies; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Part 1 Getting Started with Facebook; Chapter 1 The Many Faces of Facebook; So . . . What Is Facebook, Exactly?; Discovering What You Can Do on Facebook; Connect with friends; Learn whatâ#x80;#x99;s going on with your friends; Establish a Timeline; Communicate with Facebook friends; Share your thoughts; Share your pictures and videos; Plan Events; Join and create Groups; Facebook and the web; Promote a cause or business Know Your AudiencePrivacy on the Go; Privacy Shortcuts; Who can see my stuff?; Who can contact me?; How do I stop someone from bothering me?; Privacy Settings; Privacy; Timeline and tagging; Blocking; Apps; Ads; Timeline Privacy; All about privacy; Interested in privacy; Privacy Tools; View As; Activity Log; Privacy Checkup; Remembering That It Takes a Village to Raise a Facebook; Peeking Behind the Scenes; Protecting minors; Preventing spam and viruses; Preventing phishing; One Final Call to Use Your Common Sense; Chapter 7 Facebook on the Go; The Facebook App; Layout and navigation Email outreachYour New Home Page; Adding More Friends; Filling out Your Profile Information; Chapter 3 Finding Your Way Around Facebook; Checking Out the Blue Bar on Top; Search; The Left-side Menu; The Shortcuts section; Explore; Create; Viewing News Feed; Right On; The Littlest Links; Part 2 Day-to-Day Facebook; Chapter 4 The Daily Facebook: News Feed and Posting; Your Daily News . . . Feed; Anatomy of a News Feed story; Common story types; Trending; Interacting with News Feed; Liking; Reacting; Liking Pages; Commenting; Sharing; Sharing across the Internet; Saving; Adjusting News Feed
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Flexibility of Group Actions on the Circle
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- Introduction -- Preliminaries -- Topological Baumslag Lemmas. - Splittable Fuchsian Groups. - Combination Theorem for Flexible Groups. - Axiomatics. - Mapping Class Groups. - Zero Rotation Spectrum and Teichmüller Theory In this partly expository work, a framework is developed for building exotic circle actions of certain classical groups. The authors give general combination theorems for indiscrete isometry groups of hyperbolic space which apply to Fuchsian and limit groups. An abundance of integer-valued subadditive defect-one quasimorphisms on these groups follow as a corollary. The main classes of groups considered are limit and Fuchsian groups. Limit groups are shown to admit large collections of faithful actions on the circle with disjoint rotation spectra. For Fuchsian groups, further flexibility results are proved and the existence of non-geometric actions of free and surface groups is established. An account is given of the extant notions of semi-conjugacy, showing they are equivalent. This book is suitable for experts interested in flexibility of representations, and for non-experts wanting an introduction to group representations into circle homeomorphism groups
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Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions
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This monograph-like state-of-the-art survey presents the history, the key ideas, the success stories, and future challenges of performance evaluation and demonstrates the impact of performance evaluation on a variety of different areas through case studies in a coherent and comprehensive way. Leading researchers in the field have contributed 19 cross-reviewed topical chapters competently covering the whole range of performance evaluation, from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in numerous other fields. Additionally, the book contains one contribution on the role of performance evaluation in industry and personal accounts of four pioneering researchers describing the genesis of breakthrough results. The book will become a valuable source of reference and indispensable reading for anybody active or interested in performance evaluation
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Marine Carbon Biogeochemistry : A Primer for Earth System Scientists
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1. Introduction -- 2. From inorganic carbon to organic carbon -- 3. The return from organic to inorganic carbon -- 4. Carbon processing at the seafloor -- 5. Biogeochemical processes and inorganic carbon dynamics -- 6. Organic matter is more than CH2O This open access book discusses biogeochemical processes relevant to carbon and aims to provide readers, graduate students and researchers, with insight into the functioning of marine ecosystems. A carbon centric approach has been adopted, but other elements are included where relevant or needed. The book focuses on concepts and quantitative understanding of primary production, organic matter mineralization and sediment biogeochemistry. The impact of biogeochemical processes on inorganic carbon dynamics and organic matter transformation are also discussed
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Corruption in Latin America
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"In Corruption in Latin America the reader is presented with an alternative starting point for understanding corruption in this key region. The author asserts that corruption is a stable and rational social and organizational mechanism. Seen through this lens, we can begin to understand why it persists, and how to implement strategies to control corruption effectively. Beginning with an in-depth, nuanced examination of the concept of corruption, the author establishes the theoretical basis for viewing corruption as a social construct. An analysis of the experiences of three countries in the region - Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico - provides the reader with concrete data from which they can understand how and why these behaviors are reproduced, validated, and tolerated in everyday settings between governments and citizens, governments and firms, and firms and clients. Once we see corruption as the socially sanctioned norm for getting business done, we can begin to produce and propose effective solutions to reduce corruption in Latin America by designing and implementing instruments that transform this dynamic. This rigorous and original approach will challenge the reader's assumptions about corruption, and will appeal to students of corporate governance, international business, public management, and business ethics"--
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The Palgrave handbook of peacebuilding in Africa
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This handbook offers an up-to-date analysis of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing the AU and RECs? efforts in achieving a Pax Africana; and the role of external actors including the United Nations (UN) and former colonial powers Britain and France, but also key (non-African) troop contributing countries in these efforts. Building on the late Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui?s concept of Pax Africana - Africans taking responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security on their own continent - the authors argue that the transformation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) into the AU in 2002, was a concrete step towards the realisation of an African-wrought vision of continental peace and prosperity, and has since witnessed the creation of a set of institutions - together known as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) - for more robust conflict management
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Populist parties and democratic resilience : a cross-national analysis of populist parties' impact on democratic pluralism in Europe
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Introduction: Populist Parties, Pluralism and Democratic Systems in Europe -- Varieties of Populism in East-Central Europe: From Democratic Challenge to Illiberal Project -- Explaining Democratic Backsliding in Poland: The Interplay of Party-specific and Contextual Factors -- Anti-pluralist Reactions to an Anti-pluralist Party: The 'Alternative for Germany' and the German Party System -- Making a Wor(l)d of Difference? The National Front's Anti-pluralist Stands and their Evolution Over Time -- Protector of the People or Enemy of Democracy? Vlaams Belang's Anti-pluralist Discourse and Institutional Barriers in the Flemish Political System -- Party System Hospitality, Internal Strife, and Radicalisation: The Evolution of the Partij voor de Vrijheid and the Forum voor Democratie in the Netherlands -- Taming Populist Anti-pluralism? The Effect of Changing Centre-right Strategies on the Austrian Freedom Party -- The Five Star Movement and its Challenge to the Pluralistic Foundations of Italian Democracy -- The Conditioning of Podemos by Mainstream PSOE between 2014 and 2020: From Transformative Populism to Mainstream Centre-left Coalition Partner -- Conclusion: How to Channel Populism in Europe Democratically. "Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience focuses on populist parties as the main agents of populism and examines when these parties turn anti-democratic and when they remain loyal to the democratic system. Following the Brexit referendum, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of populist parties around the globe, many observers suggested that democracy was in serious trouble. Nevertheless, while some democratic systems have been seized by populists, most of them have proven resilient. In this volume, the authors identify the conditions under which populist parties become inimical to political and societal pluralism. They offer in-depth analyses of the trajectory of populist parties in eleven European Union countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Spain). The book shows that, reflecting the diversity of national contexts, there are multiple pathways whereby populist parties' power can remain contained and subject to democratic checks and balances. Moreover, populist parties can - at times voluntarily, at other times by force of external conditions - come to adhere to the democratic rules of the game. On this basis, the volume outlines different ways in which European democracies can successfully accommodate populist parties through strategies that carefully navigate between the extremes of uncritical acceptance and outright ostracization. Drawing on the literature on democratic theory and comparative politics, this book directly contributes to the public debate on the state of democracy in Europe. It will be of interest to researchers of comparative politics, European politics, party politics, democracy, and populism"--
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Amazon : at the intersection of culture and capital
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"This book's critical analyses of Amazon.com trace the political economy of the platform, the practices of resistance that laborers and activists have employed against it, the broader cultural impacts it has had on everyday life, and its broader environmental impacts on the world."
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The large scale structure of space-time
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Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse and to disappear from view, leaving behind a 'black hole' in space; and secondly, that there will exist singularities in space-time itself. These singularities are places where space-time begins or ends, and the presently known laws of physics break down. They will occur inside black holes, and in the past are what might be construed as the beginning of the universe. To show how these predictions arise, the authors discuss the General Theory of Relativity in the large. Starting with a precise formulation of the theory and an account of the necessary background of differential geometry, the significance of space-time curvature is discussed and the global properties of a number of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations are examined. The theory of the causal structure of a general space-time is developed, and is used to study black holes and to prove a number of theorems establishing the inevitability of singualarities under certain conditions. A discussion of the Cauchy problem for General Relativity is also included in this 1973 book The role of gravity -- Differential geometry -- General relativity -- The physical significance of curvature -- Exact solutions -- Causal structure -- The Cauchy problem in general relativity -- Space-time singularities -- Gravitational collapse and black holes -- The initial singularity in the universe
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Study on China's industrial competitiveness
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Theory of China’s Industrial Competitiveness -- Research on China’s Industrial Competitiveness -- Research on China's Industrial Cluster Competitiveness -- Analysis of China’s Input-Output International Competitiveness -- Research on Soft International Competitiveness of China's Enterprise Management -- Assessment and Analysis of China’s Manufacturing International Competitiveness -- Assessment and Analysis of International Competitiveness -- Assessment and Analysis of basic International Competitiveness of China's Manufacturing Industry -- Foreign Trade Development of China’s Industrial Sector and Its International Competitiveness -- Industrial Competitiveness among China’s Industrial Sectors and Sector Selection -- Research on Industrial Competitiveness of China’s Service Sector -- Research on Industrial Competitiveness of China’s Tourism Sector -- Research on Industrial Competitiveness of China’s Culture Sector -- Research on Industrial Competitiveness of China’s Environmental Protection Sector -- Research on Industrial Competitiveness of China’s Agricultural Sector. This book builds an information platform on China's industrial competitiveness, providing scientific design and application case studies for integrated analysis and decision-making facilities and mechanisms for enterprises, industries, financial institutions and governments, which can make up for the lack of adequate information in China's market operations, especially the problems of duplicate construction and vicious competition aggravated by the lack of systematically processed industrial information. This book not only pursues innovation in technical methods and application theories but also pursues the collection, processing and collation of relevant domestic and international data and development and application so as to provide primary results for an industrial competitiveness database adapted to government management needs. The research is closely related to the actual problems in China and extensively uses statistical data to make various model analyses, which has a relatively sizeable academic value.
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Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers
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The theory of probability and mathematical statistics is becoming an indispensable discipline in many branches of science and engineering. This is caused by increasing significance of various uncertainties affecting performance of complex technological systems. Fundamental concepts and procedures used in analysis of these systems are often based on the theory of probability and mathematical statistics. The book sets out fundamental principles of the probability theory, supplemented by theoretical models of random variables, evaluation of experimental data, sampling theory, distribution updating and tests of statistical hypotheses. Basic concepts of Bayesian approach to probability and two-dimensional random variables, are also covered. Examples of reliability analysis and risk assessment of technological systems are used throughout the book to illustrate basic theoretical concepts and their applications. The primary audience for the book includes undergraduate and graduate students of science and engineering, scientific workers and engineers and specialists in the field of reliability analysis and risk assessment. Except basic knowledge of undergraduate mathematics no special prerequisite is required
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The persistence of party : ideas of harmonious discord in eighteenth-century Britain
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"Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, representative politics were trialled? From Bolingbroke to Burke, political thinkers regarded party as a fundamental concept of politics, especially in the parliamentary system of Great Britain. The paradox of party was best formulated by David Hume: whilst parties often threatened the total dissolution of the government, they were also the source of life and vigour in modern politics. In the eighteenth century, party was usually understood as a set of flexible and evolving principles, associated with names and traditions, which categorised and managed political actors, voters, and commentators. In other words, Max Skjönsberg persuasively demonstrates that the idea of party as ideological unity is not purely a nineteenth- or twentieth-century phenomenon but can be traced to the eighteenth century"--
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The geography of scientific collaboration
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"This book offers a complex analysis of the spatial aspects of scientific collaboration, addressing the topic at a number of levels: individual (personal), organizational, urban, regional, national, and international. Spatial patterns of scientific collaboration are analysed along with their determinants and consequences. The examples of scientific collaboration policy discussed in the book are taken from three different settings: the European Union, the USA and China. Through a number of case studies the authors analyse the background, development and evaluation of these policies."--Provided by publisher
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Distributed Public Governance : Agencies, Authorities and other Government Bodies
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Good governance in modern times requires attention not only to shifting relations between governments, citizens and parliaments, but to the effective functioning of government itself. One important issue is "Distributed Governance" - a term coined in this publication to capture the notion of proliferating public organisations operating with some degree of separateness from core government ministries. Despite the fact that in many countries more than half of public employment and central public expenditure is carried out through such bodies, they have not been comprehensively studied
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Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective
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Introduction -- Forms and sources of inequality -- The structure of contemporary inequality -- Inequality at the extremes -- Generating inequality -- Race and ethnicity -- Gender inequality -- The consequences of inequality -- The future of inequality
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Hot spot of invention : Charles Stark Draper, MIT, and the development of inertial guidance and navigation
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Preface: Hot spot of innovation and invention -- A milestone in aviation history -- The formative years -- Back to MIT -- Aircraft instruments and the beginnings of the Instrumentation Lab -- From turn indicator to gunsight -- War work -- Directors and gun fire-control systems -- The A1-C(M) gunsight -- The "immaculate interception" and other air-defense activities -- Inertial navigation -- Floated gyros and SPIRE -- SINS : the submarine inertial navigation system -- Professor, prodigious worker, family man -- Inertial guidance for Atlas and Thor -- Titan, FLIMBAL, AIRS, and the MX/Peacekeeper -- Polaris -- Poseidon and trident -- Spy satellites and space planes -- To the moon and beyond -- The road to divestiture -- A heterogeneous engineer. "Charles Stark Draper, often referred to as 'The Father of Inertial Navigation,' was the moving force behind the development of the floated gyroscope in the United States. He was an engineer, a scientist, and an inventor; an inspiring teacher; and a dynamic leader responsible for creating the laboratory that brought inertial navigation to fruition for operational use in submarines, aircraft, and space vehicles. Draper also created and ran the famous laboratory, now bearing his name, that helped make MIT into one of the nation's leading research centers for government research. The story of Draper's life and his accomplishments cannot be separated from those of the Instrumentation Laboratory, which are one and the same. Thus, this biography of Charles Stark 'Doc' Draper, is also a chronological accounting of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and its contributions to the nation"--
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Psychoanalysis and religion in the 21st century : competitors or collaborators ?
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What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion? David Black brings together contributors from a wide range of schools and movements to discuss this question Beyond illusion : psychoanalysis and the question of religious truth / Rachel B. Blass -- 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's' : is there a realm of God in the mind? / M. Fakhry Davids -- The case for a contemplative position / David M. Black -- Emancipation from the super-ego : a clinical study of the book of Job / Ronald Britton -- The Christmas story : a psychoanalytic enquiry / David Millar -- Ways of transformation / Michael Parsons -- Psychoanalysis and spirituality / Jeffrey B. Rubin -- Reflections on the phenomenon of adoration in relationships, both human and divine / Francis Grier -- Preverbal experience and the intuition of the sacred / Kenneth Wright -- Religion : the guarantor of civilization / Neville Symington -- Psychoanalysis and Judaism / Stephen Frosh -- The structure of no-structure : Winnicott's concept of unintegration and the Buddhist notion of no-self / Mark Epstein -- Vedanta and psychoanalysis / Malcom Cunningham -- A simple question? / Rodney Bomford
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Food and development
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"The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last 30 years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a consequence; some people have too much food and die from associated diseases. Furthermore, some methods of food production create social dislocation and deadly environments where biodiversity is eroded and pollution is rampant. While guaranteeing enough food for the world's inhabitants continues to be a serious challenge, new issues about food have emerged.Food and Development is a lively and lucidly written text which provides a clear and accessible introduction to these complex and diverse food related problems. It explores the continued prevalence of mass under nutrition in the developing world; acute food crises in some places associated with conflict; the emergence of over nutrition in the developing world and the vulnerability of the contemporary global food production system. The text identifies the major problems and analyses factors at the international, national and local scales to understand their continued prevalence. The book concludes by evaluating the potential of some oppositional forces to challenge the hegemony of the contemporary food system. This timely and original text will be invaluable to undergraduates interested in the challenges surrounding food and development. The text is richly filled with case studies from the global north and south to illustrate the nature and extent of these urgent issues and their interrelated nature. Each chapter contains a range of features to assist undergraduate learning, including: learning objective, key concepts, summaries, discussion questions, further reading and websites, and follow up activities"--
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Handbook of recycling : state-of-the-art for practitioners, analysts, and scientists
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Handbook of Recycling is an authoritative review of the current state-of-the-art of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one another. The book addresses several material flows, including iron, steel, aluminum and other metals, pulp and paper, plastics, glass, construction materials, industrial by-products, and more. It also details various recycling technologies as well as recovery and collection techniques. To completely round out the picture of recycling, the book considers policy and economic implications, including the impact of recycling on energy use, sustainable development, and the environment. With contemporary recycling literature scattered across disparate, unconnected articles, this book is a crucial aid to students and researchers in a range of disciplines, from materials and environmental science to public policy studies Handbook of Recycling is an authoritative review of the current state-of-the-art of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one another. The book addresses several material flows, including iron, steel, aluminum and other metals, pulp and paper, plastics, glass, construction materials, industrial by-products, and more. It also details various recycling technologies as well as recovery and collection techniques. To completely round out the picture of recycling, the book considers policy and economic implications, including the impact of
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Pensions, savings and capital flows : from ageing to emerging markets
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This books explores the international aspects of pension reform, private savings and volatile capital markets and clarifies how they relate to each other. Building the case for the pension-improving benefits of global asset diversification, analysing the implications of financial reform for stimulating savings, and exploring both the benefits and risks of global capital flows to emerging markets, Pensions, Savings and Capital Flows will inform policy and academic debates on financial globalisation
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The impact of the social sciences : how academics and their research make a difference
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Based on a three year research project studying the impact of academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreaking book undertakes the most thorough analysis yet of how academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts, contributes to economic prosperity, and informs public understanding of policy issues.--
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General equilibrium, capital and macroeconomics : a key to recent controversies in equilibrium theory
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This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central tenets of neoclassical macroeconomic theory (such as the negative dependence of aggregate investment on the interest rate, or the existence of a downward-sloping demand curve for labour) which had their basis in the long-period versions where capital was treated as a single factor. According to the author, what makes it difficult to appreciate these consequences is the current imperfect grasp of the long-period method (an approach common to classical and to the first generations of neoclassical economists, but nowadays often confused with steady-growth analysis). The origins of this problem date back to the 1930s, and to this day still obscure the history and the logic of the neoclassical approach. The book explains the analytical differences between long-period, steady-growth, and short-period general equilibrium analyses, and proves that on this basis considerable clarification can be achieved, not only in many aspects of the history of economic theory, but also in fundamental issues in the theories of value, distribution, capital, investment, employment and money. For example, the reasons for the disagreements in the 'Cambridge controversies' over capital theory become very apparent. This stimulating critique on the present state of economic theory will appeal to academics and researchers with an interest in macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and the theory of value and distribution. It will also enlighten and inform anyone wanting to understand the reasons behind the current dissatisfaction with neoclassical economics
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Waste management, processing and valorisation
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This book highlights current efforts and research on waste management, processing and valorization, particularly in Asia-Africa countries. Chapters 1–2 highlight the overview of plastic waste management and the production of waste plastic oil (WPO). Chapters 3–5 discuss the landfill characterization and application of incineration and composting for waste processing. A new achievement in adsorbent production is highlighted in Chapters 6 and 7 while Chapters 10 and 11 focus on sewage characteristic and its utilization using microalgae. Enzyme production using waste is covered by Chapters 10-12. Chapter 13-14 dedicated to the advances in production of bioenergy. The book concludes with a discussion on life cycle analysis for solid waste management (Chapter 15).
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Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany : immigration, space, and belonging, 1961-1990
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Settling in at work -- At home in Almanya -- Around the neighborhood -- Learning to belong -- Making space for religion -- Belonging in reunified Germany -- Conclusion : integration as history, reciprocity, and space. Zusammenfassung: "As the largest national group of guest workers in Germany, the Turks became a visible presence in local neighbourhoods and schools and had diverse social, cultural, and religious needs. Focussing on West Berlin, Sarah Thomsen Vierra explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children from the early days of their participation in the post-war guest worker program to the formation of multi-generational communities"--(Provided by publisher.)
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Neoliberalism, ethics and the social responsibility of psychology : dialogues at the edge
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"This volume encompasses deeply critical dialogues that question how the field of psychology exists within and is shaped by the current neoliberal political context. Spanning from psychoanalysis to post-colonial theory, these far-reaching discussions consider how a greater ethical responsiveness to human experience and sociopolitical arrangements may reopen the borders of psychological discourse. With the understanding that psychology grows in the soil of neoliberal terrain and is a chief fertilizer for neoliberal expansion, the interviews in this book explore alternative possibilities for this field of study might function. By offering their own unique responses regarding the current condition of their respective disciplines, these scholars critically consider the current conceptual frameworks that set the theoretical boundaries of psychology, and contemplate the ethical responsibilities currently affecting the field. This book will prove essential for scholars and students across several disciplines including psychology, philosophy, ethics, and post-colonial and socio-cultural studies, as well as practicing mental health professionals with an interest in the importance of psychological and social theory"--
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Postmodernism and management
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Postmodernism versus truth in management theory / Bill McKelvey -- Critique of postmodernism in organizational studies / Lex Donaldson -- Postmodern epistemology in organization studies : a critical appraisal / William McKinley -- Postmodernism's Kantian roots / Onkar Ghate -- Objectivism : the proper alternative to postmodernism / Onkar Ghate, Edwin A. Locke -- To be done with progress and other heretical thoughts for organization and management studies / Marta B. Cal(c)Øas, Linda Smircich -- Interpretive unpacking : moderately destabilizing identities and images in organization studies / Mats Alvesson -- Modernism, postmodernism, management and organization theory / Stewart R. Clegg, Martin Kornberger -- Bringing ideas back in : eclecticism and discovery in organizational studies / Martin Kilduff, Mihaela Kelemen -- Preface / Edwin A. Locke. - Postmodern philosophy has had a profound effect on intellectuals throughout the world. Its influence has seeped into many fields other than philosophy including literature, psychology, sociology, political science, history, journalism and management. However, there is a debate within the intellectual community as to whether this influence has been beneficial or harmful with no resolution yet in sight. This book contributes to the debate within the field of management. The book includes four chapters by the most highly regarded pro postmodern scholars and an equal number of chapters by the most highly regarded anti postmodern scholars. Adding to the controversy is a final chapter which argues that Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism is the proper alternative to postmodernism Postmodern philosophy has had a profound effect on intellectuals throughout the world. Its influence has seeped into many fields other than philosophy including literature, psychology, sociology, political science, history, journalism and management. However, there is a debate within the intellectual community as to whether this influence has been beneficial or harmful with no resolution yet in sight. This book contributes to the debate within the field of management. The book includes four chapters by the most highly regarded pro postmodern scholars and an equal number of chapters by the most highly regarded anti postmodern scholars. Adding to the controversy is a final chapter which argues that Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism is the proper alternative to postmodernism
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Nature-inspired computing design, development, and applications
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"This book covers all the main areas of natural computing, from methods to computationally synthesized natural phenomena, to computing paradigms based on natural materials, offering ideas and research from nature to develop computational systems or materials to perform computation"--Provided by publisher
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Living with water. Slovenian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition/La Biennale di Venezia
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Living with water is a daily fact of life in Slovenia, more than it might seem at first glance. Water ? from rivers to glacial lakes, waterfalls, torrential hills, gullies, bogs, disappearing lakes, bays, karst and thermal springs ? is one of the most potent and decisive factors determining both Slovenia?s landscapes and its supply of drinking water. Water is part of myriad myths and the subconscious, of thought and creativity, politics and protest. At the same time, water is full of opposites. 0A multidisciplinary team of 13 architects, landscape architects, urban planners, researchers and strategists explores and discusses the relationship between architecture and water both past and present and what a relationship should look like in the future. How to re-think water management and the protection of water resources? By understanding all the complexity and interconnectedness of natural and anthropogenic water systems and by developing alternative models, can we create a new, fairer, safer and less invasive living environment? Water management requires the input of informed people and important political decisions. The controversial and notorious unrealised Slovenian Parliament by architect Joze Plecnik, which incorporates a fountain hidden under the main hall designed as and meant to represent a mythical source of wisdom for the deputies, seems like an ideal space to talk about these pressing issues.00Exhibition: Slovenian Pavilion, 16th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy (26.05.-25.11.2018)
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Art and architecture of migration and discrimination : Turkey, Pakistan, and their European diasporas
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Art and the 1947 Partition of South Asia / Iftikhar Dadi -- Berlin as an Urban Synecdoche for Immigration Vinh Phu Pham
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Beam dynamics in high energy particle accelerators
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Particle accelerators are essential tools for scientific research in fields as diverse as high energy physics, materials science and structural biology. They are also widely used in industry and medicine. Producing the optimum design and achieving the best performance for an accelerator depends on a detailed understanding of many (often complex and sometimes subtle) effects that determine the properties and behavior of the particle beam. Beam Dynamics in High Energy Particle Accelerators provides an introduction to the concepts underlying accelerator beam line design and analysis, taking an approach that emphasizes the elegance of the subject and leads into the development of a range of powerful techniques for understanding and modeling charged particle beams.--
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Financial Decision Making Using Computational Intelligence
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Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Statistically Principled Application of Computational Intelligence Techniques for Finance (J.V. Healy) -- 2. Can Artificial Traders Learn and Err Like Human Traders? A New Direction for Computational Intelligence in Behavioral Finance (S.-H. Chen, K.-C. Shih, C.-C. Tai) -- 3. Application of Intelligent Systems for News Analytics (C. Bozic, S. Chalup, D. Seese) -- 4. Modelling and Trading the Greek Stock Market with Hybrid ARMA-Neural Network Models (C. L. Dunis, J. Laws, A. Karathanasopoulos) -- 5. Pattern Detection and Analysis in Financial Time Series Using Suffix Arrays (K. F. Xylogiannopoulos, P. Karampelas, R. Alhajj) -- 6. Genetic Programming for the Induction of Seasonal Forecasts: A Study on Weather Derivatives (A. Agapitos, M. O’Neill, A. Brabazon) -- 7. Evolution Strategies for IPO Underpricing Prediction (D. Quintana, C. Luque, J. M. Valls, P. Isasi) -- 8. Bayesian Networks for Portfolio Analysis and Optimization (S. Villa, F. Stella) -- 9. Markov Chains in Modelling of the Russian Financial Market (G. A. Bautin and V. A. Kalyagin) -- 10. Fuzzy Portfolio Selection Models: A Numerical Study (En. Vercher and J. D. Bermúdez) -- 11. Financial Evaluation of Life Insurance Policies in High Performance Computing Environments (S. Corsaro, P. L. De Angelis, Z. Marino, P. Zanetti) -- Index. Financial Decision Making Using Computational Intelligence covers all the recent developments in complex financial decision making through computational intelligence approaches. Computational intelligence has evolved rapidly in recent years and it is now one of the most active fields in operations research and computer science. The increasing complexity of financial problems and the enormous volume of financial data often make it difficult to apply traditional modeling and algorithmic procedures. In this context, the field of computational intelligence provides a wide range of useful techniques, including new modeling tools for decision making under risk and uncertainty, data mining techniques for analyzing complex data bases, and powerful algorithms for complex optimization problems. This book presents the recent advances made in financial decision making using computational intelligence, covering both new methodological developments as well as new emerging application areas. This work covers a wide range of topics related to financial decision making, financial modeling, risk management, and financial engineering, including algorithmic trading, financial time-series analysis, asset pricing, portfolio management, auction markets, and insurance services. Practitioners in the financial industry as well as operations researchers, management scientists, and data analysts will find this publication highly useful.
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Introduction to Global Variational Geometry
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Jet prolongations of fibred manifolds -- Differential forms on jet prolongations of fibred manifolds -- Formal divergence equations -- Variational structures -- Invariant variational structures -- Examples: Natural Lagrange structures -- Elementary sheaf theory -- Variational sequences The book is devoted to recent research in the global variational theory on smooth manifolds. Its main objective is an extension of the classical variational calculus on Euclidean spaces to (topologically nontrivial) finite-dimensional smooth manifolds; to this purpose the methods of global analysis of differential forms are used. Emphasis is placed on the foundations of the theory of variational functionals on fibered manifolds - relevant geometric structures for variational principles in geometry, physical field theory and higher-order fibered mechanics. The book chapters include: - foundations of jet bundles and analysis of differential forms and vector fields on jet bundles, - the theory of higher-order integral variational functionals for sections of a fibred space, the (global) first variational formula in infinitesimal and integral forms- extremal conditions and the discussion of Noether symmetries and generalizations,- the inverse problems of the calculus of variations of Helmholtz type- variational sequence theory and its consequences for the global inverse problem (cohomology conditions)- examples of variational functionals of mathematical physics. Complete formulations and proofs of all basic assertions are given, based on theorems of global analysis explained in the Appendix
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Practical statistics for astronomers
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"Astronomy needs statistical methods to interpret data, but statistics is a many-faceted subject which is difficult for non-specialists to access. This handbook helps astronomers analyze the complex data and models of modern astronomy. This second edition has been revised to feature many more examples using Monte Carlo simulation, and now also includes Bayesian inference, Bayes factors and Markov Chain Monte Carlo integration. Chapters cover basic probability, correlation analysis, hypothesis testing, Bayesian modelling, time series analysis, luminosity functions and clustering. Exercises at the end of each chapter guide readers through the techniques and tests necessary for most observational investigations. The data tables from the book are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521732499. Bringing together the most relevant statistical and probabilistic techniques for use in observational astronomy, this handbook is a practical manual for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and professional astronomers"--
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The cosmopolitanism reader
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In response to a renewed cosmopolitan enthusiasm, this volume brings together 25 essays in the development of cosmopolitan thought by distinguished cosmopolitan thinkers and critics. It looks at classical cosmopolitanism, global justice, culture and cosmopolitanism, political cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan global governance
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Light in the dark : rewriting identity, spirituality, reality
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Preface gestures of the body : escribiendo para idear -- Let us be the healing of the wound : the Coyolxauhqui imperative-la sombra y el sueño -- Flights of the imagination : rereading/rewriting realities -- Border arte : nepantla, el lugar de la frontera -- Geographies of selves-reimagining identity : nos/otras (us/other), las nepantleras, and the new tribalism -- Putting Coyolxauhqui together : a creative process -- Now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts
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The good garden : the landscape architecture of Edmund Hollander Design
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Edmund Hollander, one of New York's most eminent landscape designers, best know for his work in the Hamptons, reveals how plant scan add sensuality, texture, structure, and color to any garden. In this book Hollander provides an insider's glimpse into how his firm creates landscapes that are evocative, memorable, and layered
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3A1870641728.jsonld
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Nanomaterials : advances and applications
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This book highlights recent advances and evolution of various nanomaterials and their potential in diverse research fields. The book covers the synthesis and characterization of various nanomaterials, followed by discussion on desired applications such as clean and green renewable energy, coating, sensors, thermal applications, microelectronics, biomedical applications such as drug carriers, nutrition, biosensors and detection of cancer cells. The chapters in this book not only illustrate the capability of nanomaterials in such novel usages but also reveal their potential drawbacks and the possible ways to overcome the pitfalls. The book covers interdisciplinary research advancement of nanomaterials, beneficial for researchers and professionals working in both science and engineering.
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Two worlds of Islam : interaction between Southeast Asia and the Middle East
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In this effort to assess the changing nature of relations between these two important Islamic regions, the author investigates the degree to which common religion has influenced economic ties, the extent of Southeast Asian political involvement in the Middle East and of Middle East interest in Southeast Asia, and the character and amount of foreign religious thought reaching Muslims in Southeast Asia. --From publisher's description Historical background -- Economic interaction -- Political interaction -- The Iranian connection -- Intellectual interaction -- Revival and interaction
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Wavelet based approximation schemes for singular integral equations
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"Numerical methods based on wavelet basis (multiresolution analysis) may be regarded as a confluence of widely used numerical schemes based on Finite Difference Method, Finite Element Method, Galerkin Method, etc. The objective of this monograph is to deal with numerical techniques to obtain (multiscale) approximate solutions in wavelet basis of different types of integral equations with kernels involving varieties of singularities appearing in the field of elasticity, fluid mechanics, electromagnetics and many other domains in applied science and engineering"--
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Dutch and Flemish literature as world literature
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Introduction: Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature -- Theo D'haen (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 1. A king and two foxes: Middle Dutch Literature on European Crossroads -- Geert Claassens (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 2. John of Ruusbroec (1293-1381), Celebrated Mystagogical Author of The Spiritual Espousals -- Kees Schepers (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -- 3. Die Rose by Heinric of Brussels, the Brabantine Version of the Old French Romance of the Rose -- Anne Reynders (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 4. Courtly Literature in the Low Countries and Germany: Jacob van Maerlant and Rudolf von Ems -- Bart Besamusca (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 5. The Many Returns of Elckerlijc: Every Man's Mirror of Salvation -- Geert Warnar (University of Leiden, Netherlands) -- 6. Joost van den Vondel (Cologne 1586 - Amsterdam 1679) as Writer/Translator: Literacy in Transit -- Marco Prandoni (University of Bologna, Italy) -- 7. Multatuli: His Work Through the World -- Jaap Grave (University of Münster, Germany) -- 8. How a Flemish Writer Turned Global: The 19th-Century Journey of Conscience's Early Novellas -- Lieven D'hulst (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 9. Couperus in Translation -- Ruud Veen (Independent Scholar) -- 10. Dutch Literature and the Global System of Indentured Labor, 1900-1940 -- Saskia Pieterse (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 11. Towards a History of Russian Translations of Dutch Literature: Herman Heijermans and His Play The Good Hope in Russia -- Irina Michajlova (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) and Sergei Tcherkasski (Russian State Institute of Performing Arts / Saint Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, Russia) -- 12. Rescuing Something Fine: Huizinga's Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Waning of the Middle Ages) as World Literature -- Elke Brems (KU Leuven, Belgium) & Orsolya Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary) -- 13. "Glimpses of a poetic genius": Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) and World Literature -- Geert Buelens (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 14. Dutch Interbellum Poetry and/as World Literature -- Theo D'haen (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 15. Reinventing the Modernist Novel: Louis Paul Boon and Hugo Claus -- Kris Humbeeck (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -- 16. Small Amsterdam and the World Beyond: The Case of the Magazine Barbarber -- Bart Vervaeck (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Dirk De Geest (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 17. Postwar Dutch Fiction -- Hans Bertens (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 18. Expansions Without Affect; Identities Without Globality: Global Novels in Dutch From an Agonistic Perspective -- Hans Demeyer (University College London, UK) -- 19. Orpheus in the Trenches: Modes of Translation in Stefan Hertmans' War and Turpentine -- Frank Albers (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -- 20. At the Edge of the World and Other Stories: Dutch-Australian Emigration Literature, ca. 1945-1990 -- Ton van Kalmthout (Huygens Institute, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Netherlands) -- Index. "The recent return of 'world literature' to the centre of literary studies has entailed an increased attention to non-European literatures, but in turn has also further marginalized Europe's smaller literatures. Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature shows how Dutch-language literature, from its very beginnings in the Middle Ages to the present, has not only always taken its cue from the 'major' literary traditions of Europe and beyond, but has also actively contributed to and influenced these traditions. The contributors to this book focus on key works and authors, providing a concise, yet highly readable, history of Dutch-language literature and demonstrating how this literature is anchored in world literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Islamic thought and movement in the subcontinent : a study of Sayyid Abu A'la Mawdudi and Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
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Syed Abul Aʿla Maudoodi, 1903-1979, founder of Jamaat-e Islami, religio-political party of Pakistan and Abulḥasan 'Alī, Nadvī, b. 1913-1999, Islamic scholar
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A Second Course in Topos Quantum Theory
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Logic of Propositions in Topos Quantum Theory -- Developments on Self Adjoint Operators in Topos Quantum Theory -- Physical quantities interpreted as modal operators -- Group action in Topos Quantum Theory take two -- Quantization in Topos Quantum Theory -- Groethendieck Topoi -- Locales -- Spacetime -- Topos and Logic -- Internalizing Objects in Topos Theory -- What information can be recovered from the abelian subalgebras of a von-Neumann algebra -- Extending the spectral presheaf to non-abelian unital C*-algebras. This advanced course, a sequel to the first volume of this lecture series on topos quantum theory, delves deeper into the theory, addressing further technical aspects and recent advances. These include, but are not limited to, the development of physical quantities and self-adjoint operators; insights into the quantization process; the description of an alternative, covariant version of topos quantum theory; and last but not least, the development of a new concept of spacetime. The book builds on the concepts introduced in the first volume (published as Lect. Notes Phys. 868), which presents the main building blocks of the theory and how it could provide solutions to interpretational problems in quantum theory, such as: What are the main conceptual issues in quantum theory? And how can these issues be solved within a new theoretical framework of quantum theory? These two volumes together provide a complete, basic course on topos quantum theory, offering a set of mathematical tools to readers interested in tackling fundamental issues in quantum theory in general, and in quantum gravity in particular. From the reviews of the first volume: The book is self-contained and can be used as a textbook or self-study manual teaching the usage of category theory and topos theory, in particular in theoretical physics or in investigating the foundations of quantum theory in mathematically rigorous terms. [The] book is a very welcome contribution. Frank Antonsen, Mathematical Reviews, December, 2013.
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The Emerald handbook of quantum storytelling consulting
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There is a paradigm shift happening in storytelling consulting. The oldone-story-fits-all consulting paradigm - helping companies to brand their founding story, do elevator pitches, and deliver stump speeches - is giving way to quantum storytelling consulting. The quantum age has moved away from a mechanist, Newtonian, simple-cause-and-effect understanding of reality and life, and storytelling consulting is now about an ensemble of stories rather than a single pitch. It's about developing the spaces for storytelling processes; it's about the times when storytelling is emerging; and it's about the kinds of 'mattering' or material agency that the storytelling has. In the quantum age, space, time, and mattering have no separation; instead, 'spacetime mattering' storytelling emerges, self-organizes, and creates change management. It is no longer thecase that one narrative fits all. Rather, it is the interplay of many living stories that create the complex forces of change within organizations. 'The EmeraldHandbook of Quantum Storytelling Consulting' collects the findings of quantum storytelling researchers and consultants to develop a practical understanding of quantum storytelling consulting by sharing case examples, describing how to enact specific practices, and outlining how to conduct research into the impact and consequences of quantum thinking.
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Labour markets in transition : balancing flexibility and security in Central and Eastern Europe
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"This book aims to contribute to [the] debate on the degree of flexibility and security needed for the transition countries, and its implications for the new direction of labour market and social policies."--Foreword Introduction: The case for labour market institutions in transition countries -- Labour market development in the 1990s : an overview of the transition countries -- Changing characteristics of employment --Labour market dynamics in the 1990s : a comparative analysis -- The impact of EPL [employment protection legislation] on labour market outcomes : evidence from transition and Western industrialized countries -- The role of labour market institutions, social dialogue and labour taxation -- Policy conclusions
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Peace and conflict since 1991 : war, intervention, and peacebuilding organizations
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This book provides a fact-filled overview of the problem of political violence and what is being done to ameliorate it. The book presents extensive data about wars that have taken place since 1991, including information on what started and stopped them, the actions being taken to reduce the extent of armed conflict in the world, and the organisations that conduct and fund peacebuilding operations and research. Those interested in stopping or preventing wars will see how wars ended and what caused them to stop. Peacebuilders, funders and researchers will find an extensive catalogue of organisations with similar interests with which they can collaborate. Scholars and teachers will find the book as a helpful resource for courses on political violence.
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Science in the age of computer simulation
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Introduction -- Sanctioning models : theories and their scope -- Methodology for a virtual world -- A tale of two methods -- When theories shake hands -- Models of climate : values and uncertainties -- Reliability without truth -- Conclusion
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3A776493957.jsonld
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Managing wetlands : an ecological economics approach
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The extensive destruction of wetlands across Europe represents a significant loss of biodiversity along with its related economic, cultural, ethical and scientific benefits. This volume addresses the critical issues surrounding this environmental change process, employing a range of analytical methods drawn from a variety of disciplines which bridge the social and natural science divide pt. I. Methodological issues and wetland ecosystem management -- pt. II. Case studies of ecological-economic approaches to wetland ecosystem management
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Invariants for Real-Generated Uniform Topological and Algebraic Categories
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Classes of subsets as invariants -- Uniform spaces -- Topological spaces -- Algebraic structures -- Generation by dense subspaces.
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