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  • 1
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    Taxation and Management of Natural Resources in Africa (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031581243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 483 p. 16 illus., 15 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Environmental economics. ; Business enterprises ; Business tax ; Management. ; Finance, Public. ; Taxation ; Management ; Natural Resources ; Sustainable Development ; Taxation and Management of Natural Resources in Africa ; Policy Reforms in Africa ; Fiscal Policy ; resource rent ; Capital Gains Taxes ; Environmental taxation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: PART I: PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT -- 1. Introduction: An overview of management and tax policy of natural resources -- 2. Natural resources tax administration and reforms in Africa -- 3. Assessing the impact of socio-political risk on natural resources in Africa -- 4. Natural resources revenue management strategies in African countries -- 5. The ethical dilemma of natural resources in African countries -- PART II: FISCAL STRATEGIES OF NATURAL RESOURCES EXTRACTION -- 6. Accountability and transparency of management of natural resources in Africa: Is the information sharing the solution? -- 7. Resource rent and capital gains taxes in Africa -- 8. Taxation of oil and gas revenue in African countries -- 9. Effective and sustainable management of natural resources in Africa: The roles of environmental tax and public participation -- 10. Globalization, institutional quality and management of natural resources in Africa -- PART III: IMPLICATIONS: STABILITY, CREDITABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 11. How does taxation of natural resources promote inclusive development in Africa? -- 12. Foreign direct investment and tax incentives in the extractives sector: the good, the bad and the ugly -- 13. Economics of peace: Can extraction of oil and gas lead to sustainable peace? -- 14. How does taxation of oil and gas hold up in commodity price volatility? -- 15. Can extractive and financial sector development help build sustainable infrastructure in Africa? -- 16. Corruption, taxation of natural resources and sustainable development in Africa -- 17. The impact of natural resource depletion on climate change vulnerability and income inequalities in Africa -- 18. The future of natural resource management and policy in Africa.
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive examination of the fundamental concepts and principles crucial to the taxation and management of natural resources, specifically tailored to the unique challenges faced by developing African countries. It delves into the key instruments that comprise a resource tax policy, providing invaluable insights into the tax reforms necessary to maximize economic rent for African nations. Written by experts in the field, this book explores the potential application of effective revenue management principles by African governments to achieve desired developmental outcomes. It covers a wide range of topics, including socio-political risks, ethical dilemmas, accountability and transparency, resource rent and capital gains taxes, tax administration and reforms, taxation of oil and gas revenue, environmental taxation, globalization's impact, and the promotion of inclusive development. Designed for scholars, tax professionals, and individuals interested in natural resources management and revenue mobilization strategy in Africa, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice, providing valuable insights and recommendations for sustainable and responsible management of Africa's rich natural resources.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58124-3
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    DSGE Models for Real Business Cycle and New Keynesian Macroeconomics : Theoretical Methods and Numerical Solutions with DYNARE (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031560347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 365 p. 12 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
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    Keywords: Macroeconomics. ; Econometrics. ; Finance, Public. ; Labor economics. ; Population ; Dynamic General Equilibrium ; DSGE models ; Stochastic dynamic models ; Real Business Cycle ; New Keynesian Macroeconomics ; Blanchard-Kahn method ; DYNARE ; Macroeconomic theories ; Economic policy interventions ; Mathematical methods in economics ; Rational expectations ; Numerical solution methods ; Difference equations ; Representative agents ; Micro-founded Neo-Keynesian model ; Real wages ; Real stickiness
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Finite Difference Equations and Systems of Difference Equations in Rational Expectations -- Chapter 3. Models of Representative Agents and Real Business Cycle Models -- Chapter 4. A Simplified Illustration of Numerical Solution Methods of DSGE Models With DYNARE Software -- Chapter 5. A Basic Version of the Micro-founded Neo-keynesian Model -- Chapter 6. More Complex NKE Models: Stickiness in Money Wages, Real Stickiness and Extensions to a Medium-size Model.
    Abstract: This textbook introduces graduate and upper undergraduate students to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models. As DSGE models become integral in advanced coursework, this book serves as an invaluable guide, explaining the complexities with a methodological red thread across its five chapters. Starting with the stochastic dynamic models of the Real Business Cycle (RBC) and progressing through the field of New Keynesian Macroeconomics (NKE), it employs DSGE models to shed light on the dynamic nature of economic systems. The book presents the Blanchard-Kahn methodology for theoretical solutions, discussing its usefulness and limitations as models evolve in complexity. The book goes on to explain the shift from analytical to numerical solutions, showcasing the DYNARE software and providing coding insights. Unique to this volume is a chapter on difference equations, equipping students with essential mathematical tools, and a concluding exploration of a medium-sized New Keynesian Economics model. This book will equip students to navigate the theoretical complexities of the topic and to independently replicate and comprehend the presented results. It bridges the gap between classical and Keynesian paradigms, reviving the debate in today's "RBC vs NKE" landscape. It will enable students to master the essence of macroeconomic theories and methodologies, paving the way for their scholarly pursuits.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56034-7
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    The Business of Densification : Governing Land for Social Sustainability in Housing (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031490149
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXII, 282 p. 20 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Urban policy. ; Human geography. ; Sustainability.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Push towards urban densification evokes social exclusion in housing -- Chapter 2. Part I: Theoretical approach: Actors-centered new institutionalist political ecology -- Part II: Analytical framework: The Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) and its focus on property rights -- Chapter 3. The Irr Applied To Housing: Governing Densification For Socially Sustainable Housing Development -- Chapter 4. Study design & methodological approach: Densification and urban housing development in Switzerland -- Chapter 5. Study design & methodology: learning from the Swiss scarce land use situation -- Chapter 6. Discussion of key results -- Chapter 7. Final conclusion: governance mechanisms for socially sustainable urban densification.
    Abstract: Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe socio-political problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in older housing stocks planned to be densified or upgraded with higher rents, are being pushed to the margins of the city. A scenario that is highly unsustainable. So far, studies on densification have mainly considered the process as technological, architectural, or design-based problem. However, systematic knowledge on how to implement densification objectives sustainably – regarding economic, environmental, and social aspects – is still lacking. This book tackles this gap by analyzing densification from a governance perspective. Its point of departure is that densification per se does not necessarily lead to sustainable outcomes in terms of social inclusion, cohesion, or community stability. Rather, it politicizes densification by neglecting how the process is planned, implemented, and governed by the actors (e.g., municipal authorities, landowners) involved. The book applies an actors-centered neoinstitutionalist political ecology approach to reveal the specific objectives and strategies of actors involved, as well as the socio-political structures (i.e. rules, laws, and policies) that govern densification. Four Swiss in-depth empirical qualitative case studies (Zürich, Basel, Köniz, and Kloten) illustrate the political and legal conditions for success or failure for (un)sustainable densification implementation. Finally, this book advises stakeholders on more effective, community-oriented, collective, and decommodified forms of governance to respond to the needs of the public at large rather than simply catering to private individuals and firms. Gabriela Debrunner has a PhD in geography with a focus on spatial planning and political urbanism. She works as a postdoc, lecturer, and research associate at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL) at ETH Zurich. In her research, Gabriela Debrunner deals with the overarching question of how the city as a social space works from an urban governance perspective.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49014-9
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    Ethics of Socioeconomics : Critical Observations on Capitalism through the Lens of a Lawyer (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031388378
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 452 p. 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values 8
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    Keywords: International law. ; Trade regulation. ; Law and economics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The principles of capitalism questioned -- Chapter 2. Revisiting some building blocks of contemporary capitalism that center selfishness -- Chapter 3. Unsustainability of the capitalist socio-economic order -- Chapter 4. Revisiting an alternative method of money creation on behalf of states and certain, international, and supranational institutions as a possible way out of capitalism -- Chapter 5. From neoliberal punitive states to states of care -- Chapter 6. Alternative methods of money creation for the benefit of the private sectors -- Chapter 7. Conceptualization and sense of reality of some new, legal models for conducting an enterprise -- Chapter 8. Final Conclusions I: Capitalism as an unjust system of socio-economic order -- Chapter 9. Final Conclusions II: Establishing a new monetary order as a foundation for a new type of societies.
    Abstract: The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer. In the past decade the world has witnessed some severe financial and economic crises, espe­cially the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The author states that the socio-economic order has in the past four to five decades been thoroughly redesigned, generally favouring models that prio­ritize the free market over the public interest or even, more generally, government operation. He works out that during four to five decades, globalized, capitalist societies are facing a multiplicity of fundamental problems, such as: (1) increasing debt that severely burdens both the private and public sectors; (2) persistent poverty and an ever-increasing polarization between rich and poor, in addition to (3) intractable environmental problems that, fifty years after the Club of Rome's report entitled ‘Limits to growth’ (1972), has dragged the world into what in recent years has been referred to as "climate change." The book explains why all this is the direct result of value choices made from the late Middle Ages onwards, when in the Western world the societal models of that time were increasingly abandoned for a societal model that came to rely on the primacy of economic interests. The book not only subjects the ethical choices but also examines various problems it has caused and probes for possible ways out. This is an open access book.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38837-8
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    Driving Digital Transformation in Developing Nations : Case Studies (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031545733
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 167 p. 2 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave pivot
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Technological innovations. ; Economic development ; Development economics ; Policy for digital transformation ; Economics of innovation ; Economic Policy ; Nagy Hanna
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Aims and motivations -- Chapter 3: A first integrated transformation project: e-Sri Lanka -- Chapter 4: Transforming government -- Chapter 5: Transforming sectors: The health case -- Chapter 6: Transforming cities: Smart cities -- Chapter 7: Learning from pioneering country experiences -- Chapter 8: Impactful transformation and digital dividends -- Chapter 9: Diagnosing and managing digital ecosystems -- Chapter 10: A learning journey for countries and practitioners.
    Abstract: "If an author were to attempt combining a love story of development practice and a scholarly text on digital transformation, this would be it.” —Luci Abrahams, Director, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand “Nagy Hanna had to build the infrastructure within the World Bank and in Sri Lanka to realize the goal of digitally-enabled development. He helped us fashion the vision for e-Sri Lanka, build a new national ICT Agency, get Bank financing and facilitate implementation of a pioneering digital transformation program. As a dedicated internationalist, Hanna ably argued the case of his client in the context of a difficult environment. A tightrope walk act between client and donor, which he balanced admirably.” —Eran Wickramaratne, MP. Founding Chair ICT Agency & Former Minister of Finance, Sri Lanka This book provides detailed insight into what governments and institutions can do to drive digital transformation in a nation pursuing economic development. Drawing on real-world case studies and practical advice, the book breaks down digital transformation of public services, healthcare, and the move toward smart cities. Synthesizing publicly available information, the book captures how the World Bank transformed its response to the digital revolution in several nations. Nagy K. Hanna takes readers through the pioneering export strategy of software services in India’s and Sri Lanka’s first integrated digital transformation program. The resulting book is a guide for policymakers, development economists, and change-makers seeking new ways to harness the power of digital technologies to promote inclusive and sustainable development. Nagy K. Hanna advises countries and aid agencies on economic development and digital transformation programs. For more than three decades, he held senior positions in operations and strategic functions at the World Bank. Hanna was the World Bank's first senior advisor focused on digital economy. He was Visiting Professor at University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, as well as Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. He is Cofounder of People-Centered Internet, a global forum for inclusive digital transformation. He teaches and advises on digital leadership. Hanna has published extensively on digital leadership and national digital strategies.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54573-3
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    The Limits of Consent : Sexual Assault and Affirmative Consent (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031466229
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 138 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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    Keywords: Law and the social sciences. ; Human body ; Sex. ; Criminal behavior. ; Victims of crimes. ; Critical criminology.
    Abstract: 1 What is Sexual Consent? -- 2 Consent and Relationships -- 3 Consent and Vulnerable Communities -- 4 Consent and Reproduction -- 5 Consent, Education and Communication -- 6 The Way Forward.
    Abstract: This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships. This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated aspects of sexual consent. It examines the ways meaningful consent is difficult, if not impossible, in relationships that involve intimate partner violence or family violence. It considers the way vulnerable communities need access to information on consent. It highlights the difficulties of consent and reproductive rights, including the use (and abuse) of contraception and abortion. Finally, it considers the ways that young women are reshaping narratives of sexual assault and consent, as active agents both online and offline. Though this work considers victimisation, it also pays careful attention to the ways vulnerable groups take up their rights and understand and practice consent in meaningful ways. Lisa Featherstone is Professor and Head of School of the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia. Cassandra Byrnes is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Jenny Maturi is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Kiara Minto is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Renée Mickelburgh is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Paige Donaghy is Associate Lecturer and Research Assistant at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46622-9
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    Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268–c. 1400 : A Study of the Sources (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031483677
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 160 p. 10 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Islam ; Cultural property. ; Archaeology.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 The Manuscript Sources -- 3 Texts and Intellectual Interests -- 4 Scribes, Patrons and Readers -- 5 Locations of Manuscript Production -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 Appendices.
    Abstract: “This important study of Mevlevi manuscripts is an outstanding piece of scholarship, based on a close examination of numerous often neglected manuscript sources. It sheds new light not just on the manuscripts themselves, but also the early Mevlevi community – its artists, artisans, and patrons, and their intellectual interests. It makes a significant contribution both to art historical scholarship and to the growing field of Islamic manuscript studies, and will be required reading for anyone interested in medieval Anatolia or Sufism.” —Professor A. C. S. Peacock, University of St Andrews, UK This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It also offers an in-depth and rigorous analysis of the manuscript material, which reveals much about the role of manuscripts in early Mevlevi life, the identity of disciples who were scribes and manuscript owners, and the geographical spread of the Sufi group. The Mevlevi Sufis were one of the most important and prominent socio-religious groups to emerge in late medieval Anatolia, following the Mongol conquests of the 1240s. Sometimes known colloquially as the ‘whirling dervishes,’ the Mevlevis became particularly powerful under Ottoman rule in the early modern period, even counting some sultans as their disciples. However, there is still much to learn about their earliest days, following the death of their ‘patron saint’ Jalal al-Din Rumi in 1273. Rumi is of course also notable as the author of the Masnavi, an extensive work of Sufi poetry written in rhyming couplets that is the core of Mevlevi ritual and learning. Beyond Mevlevi circles, Rumi remains very popular today as a ‘mystic’ poet. This study sheds new light on the intellectual culture of his time. Cailah Jackson is a Research Associate of the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford and former Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
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    Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902 : A View from the Stock Exchange (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031519475
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 242 p. 12 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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    Keywords: Imperialism. ; Africa ; Great Britain ; Finance. ; History. ; Economic history. ; World politics.
    Abstract: 1.Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and Finance -- 2.From Diamonds to Gold: The Rise of Share Dealing in South Africa -- 3.From Market to Exchange: The JSE’s Early Rules, Regulations And Organisation -- 4. Finance, Industry and Information: The JSE and the Chamber Of Mines -- 5.Between Johannesburg, London and Paris: Deep-Level Mining and International Finance -- 6.Finance and Imperialism at The Exchange: The JSE and the Jameson Raid -- 7.A Modernising Exchange and the South African War -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Lukasiewicz’s book is a deeply researched study of a financial organisation and its intimate links with British imperialism and South Africa’s settler colonialism." —Stephanie Decker, Professor in Strategy, Birmingham Business School “Lukasiewicz deserves commendation for producing this illuminating study of actors and institutions at the intersection of trans-imperial and global finance and politics.” —Ayodeji Olukoju, Professor of History, University of Lagos This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market’s social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state. Mariusz Lukasiewicz is a Lecturer in African History at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, in Germany.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51947-5
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    Converting the Missionaries : The Wheeler Family and the Ojibwe (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031517808
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 204 p. 8 illus.)
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    Keywords: United States ; Indigenous peoples ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Leonard and Harriet’s Backgrounds Prepare them to Respect the Ojibwe -- Chapter 3. The Wheelers Adjust to the Ojibwe and Each Other -- Chapter 4. Settling in with the Ojibwe at Bad River -- Chpater 5. Trying to Convince the Government to Honor the 1854 Treaty Destroys Leonard Wheeler’s Health -- Chapter 6. The Wheelers Leave Bad River, but Do Not Forget It -- Chapter 7. William Wheeler Synthesizes Ojibwe and Gilded Age Values -- Chpater 8. Hattie Wheeler’s Writing Succeeds when Loyal to the Ojibwe -- Chapter 9. Wheelers Return to the Ojibwe -- Chapter 10. Mary Warren English Tries to Preserve Ojibwe Culture.
    Abstract: This book tells the uncommon story of a missionary family in the Midwestern United States, and their interactions with the indigenous Ojibwe. When Leonard and Harriet Wheeler arrived at La Pointe, Wisconsin in July of 1841, hoping to help the Ojibwe understand and accept the value of Christian civility, they did not expect such a profound transformation of their own lives. The Wheelers’ empathy for the Ojibwe not only grew during their twenty-five years of mission work in Northern Wisconsin, much of it spent trying to protect the Ojibwe from predatory whites, it also influenced the lives of their children. Nancy Bunge, a Professor Emerita at Michigan State University, also served as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Vienna, the Free University of Brussels, the University of Ghent, and the University of Siegen. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51780-8
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    From Automated to Autonomous Driving : A Transnational Research History on Pioneers, Artifacts and Technological Change (1950-2000) (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031498817
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 307 p. 73 illus., 43 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 70
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    Keywords: Science ; Robotics. ; Automotive engineering. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Computer vision.
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. History of the research on vehicle automation in the United States -- Chapter 3. History of the research on vehicle automation in Japan -- Chapter 4. History of the research on vehicle automation in Europe -- Chapter 5. Findings of the inquiry -- Chapter 6. Timeline with firsts, milestones and shifts -- Index.
    Abstract: This book presents the most important milestones of the research on automated and autonomous driving in the United States, Japan and Europe throughout five decades (1950-2000). Drawing on sources from the automotive industry, electrical engineering, the robotics and AI-domain and military institutions, it retraces the transition from the guidance-cable approach to vehicle-based sensor and vision systems. Giving a detailed overview of the technical concepts, artefacts, research vehicles and robots, the book presents the transnational engineering efforts that started long before Silicon Valley entered the field. In addition, the book also uniquely details the role of the military in the domain of vehicle automation. This all ensures the book is of great interest to historians of technology, practitioners in engineering disciplines, scholars working in mobility studies, journalists, and political decision makers.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49881-7
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    Scenes and Communities in the City (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031434648
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 148 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Urban policy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Community question: classical debates -- Chapter 3. Urban scenes as community practices -- Chapter 4. Applying urban-scenes-as-community-practices approach: voices from the field -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: scenes approach in community building.
    Abstract: This open access book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept of neighbourhood as well as personal and imagined communities, and thus proposes to comprehend urban community as social practice embedded in urban space. The book applies the Theory of Social Practice and the Theory of Scenes and develops the concept of socio-cultural opportunity structures in order to explain how cultural practices of individuals and symbolic dimensions of territory interact, leading to (re)production of various forms of urban community. It is assumed that culture in general and symbolic meanings of territory in particular, play a crucial role in the process of (re)production of urban communities, that this process takes place in collective cultural consciousness and is mediated by territorially embedded cultural practices of individuals. The book overcomes theoretical gaps in classical community studies and develops a new perspective on urban communal processes based on the analysis of social practices in urban cultural scenes. Marta Klekotko, PhD is sociologist, researcher, university teacher as well as practitioner dedicated to community empowerment and urban development. Her interests cover community studies, urban studies and development studies. She is particularly interested in cultural mechanisms of community empowerment, social cohesion and development - both in theory as well as in practice. In her work, she always takes cultural perspective, fosters theoretical eclectism, and triangulates research methods. She was visiting scholar, among others, at the University of Chicago, State University of New York in Buffalo, and University of Barcelona. She is the president of the Research Committee on Community Research (RC03) of the International Sociological Association.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43464-8
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    Ronald Reagan’s 1984 : Politics, Policy, and Culture (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031536779
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 107 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: United States ; World politics. ; America ; International relations ; Civilization ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: 1984 -- Chapter 3: Conclusion.
    Abstract: ‘A very fine, insightful and original analysis that uses Ronald Reagan's landslide re-election year as the lens through which to explore American politics, society and culture in the 1980s. This very engaging, accessible, and well written volume is highly recommended for students of US History and American Studies.’ — Iwan Morgan, Emeritus professor of US Studies at University College London and author of Reagan: American Icon Forty years after Ronald Reagan’s successful re-election campaign, this book explores the significance of the year 1984 in the making of Reagan’s presidential record and the shaping of his legacy. The authors examine the broader context of how Reagan impacted the nature of the US presidency and international relations during the Cold War, and how this in turn interacted with American popular culture. Serving as an introduction to academics, students and the interested public into what is a rapidly increasingly Reagan scholarship, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in US elections, the evolving nature of the US presidency, and American culture more generally. James Cooper is an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at York St John University, in the UK. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and the twentieth Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College, Missouri, USA. In May 2016, James was a Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. R. J. Richardson is a Postgraduate Researcher at York St John University in the UK. Her thesis explores the concept of authenticity in historically-set, long-form drama, through the creation and analysis of the opening season of a series set in New York City in 1945 Bailey Schwab is a Postgraduate Researcher at York St John University, in the UK, undertaking a thesis in presidential history between 1981 and 2009. His research explores the concept of foreign policy doctrine and how it is utilised in the critique of presidential leadership in foreign policy. .
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    Economic Development in the Digital Age (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031545696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 156 p. 5 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave pivot
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Technological innovations. ; Economic development ; Development economics ; Economics of innovation ; Economic of technology and innovation ; Nagy Hanna ; Economic policy
    Abstract: Introduction -- the global, technological and institutional contexts -- Motivation -- Early Engagements -- Responding to the Digital Revolutions -- Examining World Bank Digital Strategies -- Advocacy for Digital Transformation -- Digital Strategy for Aid Agencies.
    Abstract: “Nagy Hanna exposes the challenges of making technology an effective tool for development, while confronting vested interests that seek to sustain the status quo, both in client governments and internally within the Bank. At the heart of the book is a powerful commitment to learning and using technology to change lives for the better.” —Tim Kelly, Lead Digital Development Specialist, World Bank “As a thought leader, Hanna has accumulated decades of on-the-ground experience pioneering digital transformation projects in economies around the world, the subject of several of his important books. In this culminating and highly-readable volume, he pulls those experiences together, sets them in the context of his life-long career with the Bank, and raises vital questions for every aid agency as we move deeper into the 21st century.” —Nigel Cameron, President Emeritus, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies In this book, Nagy K. Hanna offers a holistic framework that economists and policymakers can use to examine and drive digital transformation. The book offers detailed analyses into development policies, and organizational processes governing digital transformation learning and practice and highlights the reforms needed in countries and aid agencies to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The author offers insight to help reform major aid agencies within the economic development space. The resulting text reimagines the future of development economics. Nagy K. Hanna advises countries and aid agencies on development economics and digital transformation programs. For more than three decades, he held senior positions in operations and strategic functions at the World Bank. Hanna was the World Bank's first senior advisor focused on digital economy. He was Visiting Professor at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa as well as Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. He is Cofounder of People-Centered Internet, a global forum for inclusive digital transformation. Hanna has published extensively on digital leadership and national digital strategies.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54569-6
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    History and Speculative Fiction (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031422355
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 293 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Comparative literature. ; Literature ; Science ; History, Modern.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur -- Chapter 2. Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene -- Chapter 3. Concurrent Whiteness: Science Fiction Film’s Close Encounters in Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 4. Settler Colonial Solutions to Settler Colonial Problems: Settler Cinemas and the Crisis of Colonization of Outer Space -- Chapter 5. The Weirdness of White Strangers: Imaginations of Westerners in Southeast Asian Lore and Tradition -- Chapter 6. How [Not] to Run a Colony in the Distant Past and the Future -- Chapter 7. “I get to exist as a Black person in the world”: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen -- Chapter 8. Ted Chiang’s Counterphysical Stories and History of Science Pedagogy -- Chapter 9.The Dark Past of our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager -- Chapter 10. The Wild Boar Never Strikes without Cause: Monstrous Hybrids, National Identity and Gender in the Horror Movie Chawu -- Chapter 11. Heritaging and the Use of History in Margit Sandemo’s The Legend of the Ice People -- Chapter 12. Shadowing the Brutality and Cruelty of Nature: On History and Human Nature in Princess Mononoke -- Chapter 13. Intervening in the Present through Fictions of the Future -- Chapter 14. Building a Kinship Society (short story).
    Abstract: “Proposing a symbiosis between history and speculative fi ction, this wide-ranging collection of essays asks how critical visions of alternative possibility can help us confront the dire legacies of colonialism, the specter of ecological catastrophe, and the burdens of systemic injustice. Historians and literary scholars alike should welcome this intervention.” —John Rieder, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa “This volume makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on speculative fi ction by illuminating how the concept of ‘concurrences,’ as articulated and theorized by Gunlög Fur, can serve as a valuable methodological tool in the study of speculative fi ction. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural and historical sources, the essays in this volume offer useful case studies that render the concept of concurrences more comprehensible through concrete application.” —Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future. John L. Hennessey is a research fellow in the History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University. He has published on global colonial history and the history of science in journals including Science in Context, History and Anthropology, French Colonial History, Settler Colonial Studies and Japan Review. .
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    Children in Custody Disputes : Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031463013
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 221 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Law and the social sciences. ; Community development. ; Social service. ; Juvenile delinquents. ; Social psychiatry. ; International law. ; Family policy. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kind ; Familie ; Elterliche Sorge ; Recht ; Familiengericht
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Matching legal proceedings to the problem in custody disputes -- Chapter 2. Children’s health matters in custody conflicts – What do we know? -- Chapter 3. Nordic family mediation: towards a system of differentiated services? -- Chapter 4. Custody disputes from a socio-legal perspective -- Chapter 5. Children’s participation and perspectives in family disputes -- Chapter 6. Mapping paths to family justice: Resolving family disputes involving children in neoliberal times -- Chapter 7. Out-of-court Custody Dispute Resolution in Sweden – A Journey without Destination -- Chapter 8. Children’s health matters in custody conflicts: Best interest of the child and decisions on health matters -- Chapter 9. Challenges when family conflicts meet the law – A proactive approach -- 10. Beyond the Horizon: Matching Legal Proceedings to the Problem in Custody Disputes.
    Abstract: This open access book explores how legal proceedings in and out-of-court can be matched to the complex problems underlying disputes concerning child custody, residence and contact between parents. It focusses in particular on Nordic experiences of in and out-of-court mechanisms as means of resolving custody disputes. The contributors are internationally renowned and experienced researchers from the legal, psychological, and sociological fields who provide empirical as well as legal perspectives. They examine central legal, ethical and knowledge-based dilemmas in custody dispute proceedings. The findings speak to an international audience and suggest ways how to best realize the interests of the child. It transcends disciplinary, institutional, and jurisdictional boundaries in search of new knowledge. Anna Kaldal is a professor of procedural law and head of subject at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm university, Sweden. Her main field of research is evidential law and children in legal proceedings, especially children in custody cases, criminal cases and child protection cases. She is one of the founders of the Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child. Agnes Hellner is a senior lecturer in procedural law at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research focuses on access to justice, comparative procedural law and constitutional law dimensions of procedural law, such as the relationship between the courts and the legislature. Titti Mattsson is a professor of public law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on legal, ethical and human rights issues within national social welfare systems, including children's rights. Mattsson is heading the Health Law Research Centre at Lund University.
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    Agency and Locality in the London Blitz (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031509858
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 308 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Cities and towns ; Great Britain ; World War, 1939-1945. ; History, Modern. ; Human ecology
    Abstract: 1 Introduction and Historiography -- Preamble -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Tip and Run Raids: 1943 -- Little Blitz: 1944 -- V-Weapons: 1944–1945 -- Historiography Review -- Critique of Historiography: An Absence of Locality -- Historiographical Themes: Home Front Studies -- Historiographical Themes: The Myth of the Blitz -- Shaping Wartime Experience: Metropolitan Differentials -- Class -- Gender -- Race -- Shaping Wartime Experience: The Agency of Locality -- Local Area Analysis -- The Six London Boroughs -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- Applying a Thematic Approach -- 2 Planning for War: London and the Localities -- Pre-War Fears -- Planning for War: Central Government -- Planning for War: Regional and County Level -- Planning for War: Local Authorities -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- 3 Main London Blitz Local Response: Metropolitan London -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 4 Main London Blitz Local Response: The Suburbs -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 5 Post-Blitz London: The Local Response -- Tip and Run Raids 1943 -- Little Blitz 1944 -- V-Weapons 1944–1945 -- 6 Local Response: Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Darren Bryant convincingly shows how Londoners' prospects during the Blitz were defined by just where in the capital they were living. Using case studies to point up surprising differences between one local district and another, he transforms our understanding of the experience of The Bombing War. Remarkable.” —Jerry White, Emeritus Professor of Modern London History, Birkbeck, University of London, UK “This book will change how you think about Londoners and the Blitz. In a fascinating and deeply researched study, Darren Bryant shows how local circumstances created very different experiences of bombing. I richly recommend the book not just to those interested in the Blitz, but to anyone interested in London's past and the wider history of civilians under fire in the Second World War.” —Daniel Todman, Professor of Modern History and Head of the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, UK This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term ‘London Blitz’ means that culturally we have become accustomed to understanding that the actual blitz experience was the same wherever in the capital one happened to be, despite some areas being hit more than others. This book illustrates how there were many London blitzes, not one, influenced by a myriad of metropolitan localities, and giving rise to an agency of locality that helped to shape the lived blitz experience. By walking through the streets of London, this book conducts a local area analysis, witnessing the blitz through six London localities, representative of the assorted administrative, economic, and socio-political variables prevalent in wartime London. Covering air raids alongside topics like the provision of shelters, homelessness, and communal feeding, it shows how any history of the London Blitz must acknowledge that it was an experience reflective of a varied metropolis. Darren Bryant was awarded his PhD in History from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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    Portrait of Young Gödel : Education, First Steps in Logic, the Problem of Completeness (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031519710
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 307 p.)
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    Keywords: Intellectual life ; Logic. ; Physicists ; Astronomers
    Abstract: PART I: AT HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY -- 1. At high school -- 1.1. High school extraordinary -- 1.2. The activity of the human mind -- 1.3. Molecular theory -- 1.4. G¨odel’s esoteric side -- At university: from physics to mathematics -- 2.1. The physics student -- 2.2. Mathematics and philosophy -- PART II: FIRST STEPS IN LOGIC -- 1. First encounters with foundational problems -- 2. The Weber-Heft -- 3. The U¨ bungsheft Logik -- 3.1. Exercise in constitutional analysis -- 3.2. Formal derivations in second-order arithmetic and set theory -- 3.3. Beautiful syntax trees and other diversions -- 3.4. Summary overview of the U¨ bungsheft -- 4. Punktmengenlehre -- 4.1. Hilbert’s geometry -- 4.2. Hausdorff’s point set topology -- PART III: THE PROBLEM OF COMPLETENESS -- 1. From Carnap’s exercises to the problem of completeness -- 2. Dissertation draft -- 2.1. Generality -- 2.2. First-order logic -- 2.3. The proof of completeness -- 3. Completeness of the axioms of the narrower function calculus -- 4. Lectures and seminars on completeness. -- 5. Anticipations of incompleteness -- PART IV: THE SHORTHAND NOTEBOOKS -- 1. The Weber-Heft -- 2. U¨ bungsheft Logik: formal derivations -- 3. Punktmengenlehre: Hilbert’s geometry -- 4. Punktmengenlehre and U¨ bungsheft: set theory and topology -- 6. Completeness of the axioms of the narrower function calculus -- PART V: LECTURES AND SEMINARS ON COMPLETENESS -- 1. On the completeness of the axioms of the logical function calculus -- 2. Lecture in K¨onigsberg -- 3. Lecture in Vienna (plan of contents) -- 4. Report on G¨odel’s work -- 5. Completeness of the function calculus.
    Abstract: In the summer of 1928, Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) embarked on his logical journey that would bring him world fame in a mere three years. By early 1929, he had solved an outstanding problem in logic, namely the question of the completeness of the axioms and rules of quantificational logic. He then went on to extend the result to the axiom system of arithmetic but found, instead of completeness, his famous incompleteness theorem that got published in 1931. It belongs to the most iconic achievements of 20th century science and has been instrumental in the development of theories of formal languages and algorithmic computability – two essential components in the birth of the information society. This book explores Gödel’s way from an exceptional high-school student to a firmly established young logician. Essays in Gödel’s hand from the high school show that his central philosophical and scientific convictions were formed early on, before his university studies. Particular emphasis is laid on the course that made Gödel one of the foremost logicians of all times. The scientific biography of young Gödel is followed by English translations from Gödel’s German Gabelsberger shorthand of all his early preserved notebooks on logic and related topics.
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    Investigating Forty Years of French Politics Through Value Changes (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031469589
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 246 p.)
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    Keywords: Europe ; Social history. ; Civilization ; Europe
    Abstract: This book argues for an approach based on values when trying to make sense of shifts and changes that occurred in French politics during the last four decades. Values play a pivotal role in structuring political views and policy preferences. They influence citizens’ attitudes and behaviors as well as reflect long-lasting political cultures and cleavages. After presenting the data collected within the European values studies, on which the six contributions included in this book build, we explain how these contributions highlight some major French political dynamics by scrutinizing key driving forces such as the individualization process, generational replacement or ideological consistency in economic and cultural beliefs, and by re-assessing how attitudes toward democracy, religiosity and nationalism shape political attitudes. Challenging dominant narratives of value crisis, this book sets up an agenda for future research on French politics through the lens of value change. Previously published in French Politics Volume 19, issue 2-3, September 2021. Céline Belot is Researcher at the University of Grenoble, France. Pierre Bréchon is Professor at the University of Grenoble, France. Frédéric Gonthier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Grenoble, France.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46958-9
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    Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things : Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 307 p. 26 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Science ; Philosophy ; Analytical chemistry. ; Mathematics. ; History.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Practices, Strategies, and Methodologies of Experimental Control in Historical Perspective (Jutta Schickore) -- Chapter 2. Christoph Scheiner’s The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics (1619): The Role of Contrived Experience at the Intersection of Psychology and Mathematics (Tawrin Baker) -- Chapter 3. One Myrtle Proves Nothing: Repeated Comparative Experiments and the Growing Awareness of the Difficulty of Conducting Conclusive Experiments (Caterina Schürch) -- Chapter 4. Controlling Induction: Practices and Reflections in Brewster’s Optical Studies (Friedrich Steinle) -- Chapter 5. Carl Stumpf and Control Groups (Julia Kursell) -- Chapter 6. A “Careful Examination of All Kind of Phenomena”: Methodology and Psychical Research at the End of the Nineteenth Century (Claudia Cristalli) -- Chapter 7. Controlling Nature in the Lab and Beyond: Methodological Predicaments in Nineteenth-Century Botany (Kärin Nickelsen) -- Chapter 8. Controlling the Unobservable: Experimental Strategies and Hypotheses in Discovering the Causal Origin of Brownian Movement (Klodian Coko) -- Chapter 9. From the Determination of the Ohm to the Discovery of Argon: Lord Rayleigh's Strategies of Experimental Control (Vasiliki Christopoulou and Theodore Arabatzis) -- Chapter 10. Controlling Away the Phenomenon: Maze Research and the Nature of Learning (Evan Arnet) -- Chapter 11. Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch and the Study of Color Vision in Fish (Christoph Hoffmann).
    Abstract: This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the comparative design; the unfolding of methodological discussions about control practices and designs; and the history of the term “control”. Each chapter brings these distinctions to bear on specific historical episodes. The focus is on experiments with complex, elusive phenomena such as perception and learning, irregular movements, and unobservable elements. Such experiments bring control issues to the fore because they are difficult to design and stabilize and often controversial. Together, the chapters show that the local context shapes what exactly is controlled, how control can be accomplished, and how controls are justified. They also show that control strategies and methodological ideas often remain stable for a long time and change only gradually. This book, as well as the volume on analysis and synthesis in experimentation by the same editors, contains contributions by an array of experts from multiple disciplines, making it suitable for historians and philosophers of science and students alike.
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    Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic, 1908–1931 (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 256 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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    Keywords: History, Modern. ; Europe ; Europe ; Intellectual life ; World politics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Framing the Ottoman nation -- Ottomanism between ideology and realpolitik -- Revolution and disillusion -- Identity policies in action -- Claiming the homeland? -- Reframing the nation -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial period characterized by transformative events that reshaped both the state and society. These events included revolutions, wars, mass migrations, ethnic cleansing, genocide, the empire's disintegration, territorial and demographic changes, and the emergence of new states. In the face of these events, a multitude of old and new formulations and imaginings of nation and national identity took shape and interacted with each other. This book focuses on highlighting the diversity of concepts and trajectories that existed during the period and how these played out within a complex web of inclusionary and exclusionary processes, and the various ways in which the nation was constituted and conceptualized.
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    Migration and Identity through Creative Writing : StOries: Strangers to Ourselves (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 333 Seiten) , 1 illus.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration Government policy ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Human Migration ; Migration Policy ; Sociology of Migration
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    Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031401107
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 154 p.)
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Literature, Modern ; European literature. ; Poetry.
    Abstract: 1. ‘The Bride-Night Fire’: Hardy & the Voice of the Folk -- 2. A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Cliff-Scene and the Literary Sublime -- 3. Moments of (Technological) Vision -- 4. ‘The Withered Arm’ and History -- 5. (Un)Binding the Sheaves: Selfhood and Labour in Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- 6. ‘The Open’: Hardy and Jefferies -- 7. The d’Urberville Family Portraits: Faciality and Identity -- 8. Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the Fin de Siècle -- 9. Wayfaring -- 10. Hardy’s Lyric Voice: ‘Beeny Cliff’ -- 11. ‘The Face at the Casement’: Window Patterns in Hardy’s Poetry.
    Abstract: This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure. Roger Ebbatson is Visiting Professor at Lancaster University and Emeritus Professor at University of Worcester, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including Literature and Landscape (2013) and Landscapes of Eternal Return (2016).
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    Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031398964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 214 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Feminism and literature. ; Medicine and the humanities.
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. The Problem of the Self-Governed Subject in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility -- 2. Embodied Knowing and the Hysteric in Dickens’s Bleak House -- 3. George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Question of Marriage as Catalyst or Cure -- 4. Hysterical Degeneration and The New Woman in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate stock literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.
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    Researching Central Asia : Navigating Positionality in the Field (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031390241
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 104 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Sociology ; Ethnology. ; Asia
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Central Asian Research Setting. An Introduction (Jasmin Dall’Agnola) -- Part I. Epistemic and Methodological Uncertainty -- Chapter 2. Making Sense of Central Asia: Sources of Epistemic Uncertainty (Aziz Elmuradov) -- Chapter 3. Pitfalls and Promise for Public Opinion Research in Central Asia (Kasiet Ysmanova) -- Chapter 4. ‘Swiping Right’ – The Ethics of Using Tinder as a Recruitment Tool in the Field (Paolo Sorbello) -- Part II. Beyond ‘Outsiders’ and ‘Locals’ -- Chapter 5. The Power of a Multi-layered Identity in Central Asian Research (Gulzhanat Gafu) -- Chapter 6. Being Afghani, French and not Soviet, Along the Border Between Tajikistan and Afghanistan (Mélanie Sadozaï) -- Chapter 7. A Stranger in the Village: Anti-Blackness in the Field (Alexa Kurmanov) -- Part III. Doing Research in Closed Contexts -- Chapter 8. Safety, Security, and Self-Censorship as Survival Strategies (Aijan Sharshenova) -- Chapter 9. Navigating Academic Repression in Central Asia (Ruslan Norov) -- Chapter 10. Performative Heterosexuality: A Gay Researcher Doing Fieldwork in Central Asia (Marius Honig) -- Chapter 11. From Romantic Advances to Cyberstalking in the Field (Jasmin Dall’Agnola).
    Abstract: This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? How does practitioners’ and scholars’ positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access to the field? How do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia? The book includes contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers’ subjectivity shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. In featuring an even greater variety of voices, this book fills an important gap in the literature on field research and knowledge production in and on Central Asia.
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    Critical Authoethnography and Écriture Feminine : Writing with Hélène Cixous (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031400513
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 179 p. 13 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature ; Feminism and literature. ; Continental Philosophy. ; Sex.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction: Digging, Unburying and Going to Writing School -- 2: Writing Myself Back Together -- 3: The School of the Dead and My Mother: A Story of Hunger -- 4: Finding a Language of My Own: Journeying to the School of the Dead with Cixous -- 5: The Narcissist Never Leaves, Only Dies: An Autoethno-graphic Account inspired by Cixous -- 6: Your Dreambody Must be Heard—Writing Trauma in the School of Dreams -- 7: The Fatal Blow: “Who are I­­­?” A Feminist Autoethnographer’s Encounter with Cixous -- 8: This Writing Chatters, Just Like a Dream: The Ragged Vitality of Teeth and Memory Loss -- 9: Learning Cixous’ Écriture Feminine Through the Flow of Words and Blood -- 10: Metis and Cixous—Cunning Resistance, Bodily Intelligence and Allies -- 11: Denying the Penis: Bringing Women to Writing [With/in and] Through Doc-toral Supervision -- 12: Writing Australian Gardens to Cross Borders Between the Online and Offline Worlds -- Inter-View. .
    Abstract: The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing. Critical autoethnography shares a reciprocal, and inter-animating relationship with Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (“feminine writing”), and in this collection authors explore that inter-animation by explicitly engaging with Three steps on the ladder of writing. Three steps is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving reflection on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for writing: The School of the Dead—the notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; The School of Dreams—the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and The School of Roots—the importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing. Topics covered include: ways Cixous’ work can address the need for loss and reparation in writing critical autoethnography, how Cixous’ writing “makes our body speak” through concepts of birth and the body in, through and of critical autoethnography, whether writing in this way recast and reform prevailing orders of domination and oppression, and how Cixous’ writing around the ethics of loving and giving translates into response-able and non-violent forms of critical autoethnography in relation to otherness and difference. In this collection, we invite you to “Let us go to the school of [critical autoethnographic] writing” (Cixous, 1993, p. 3) with the work of Hélène Cixous, and speak in a different way and through a different medium of academic language, in an approach that reveals the tensions, the paradoxes, the pains and the pleasures of writing with critical autoethnography in the contemporary university.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40051-3
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    Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031366369
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 215 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: African Histories and Modernities
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    Keywords: Creative nonfiction. ; African literature. ; Literature.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Place and Privilege in Helene Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood -- Chapter 3. Exiled Place in Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home -- Chapter 4 - Family History and Place in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey -- Chapter 5- Redemptive Place in Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces -- Chapter 6- Disillusioned Place in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria -- Chapter 7- Place and Politics in Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe -- Chapter 8 - Place and Trauma in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil -- Chapter 9 - From Place to Place in Aminatta Forna’s Autobiographical Writing -- Chapter 10- Home and Nation in Autobiographical Writing.
    Abstract: This book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ‘place’. It examines eight authors’ works – Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland, Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort, Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads and Aminatta Forna’s autobiographical writing – to argue that place is particularly central to personal narrative in texts whose authors have migrated multiple times. Spanning Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, this book interrogates the label ‘African’ writing which has been criticized for ignoring local contexts. It demonstrates how in their works these writers seek to reconnect with a bygone ‘Africa’, often after complex experiences of political upheavals and personal loss. The chapters also provide in-depth analyses of key concepts related to place and autobiography: place and privilege, place and trauma, and the relationship between place and nation. Lena Englund currently works as senior researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland. She is the author of South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past (Palgrave, 2021).
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36636-9
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    Kantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wright (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031402166
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 228 p. 4 illus.)
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    Series Statement: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Creative nonfiction. ; Literature, Modern ; America ; Literature ; Ethics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction: Contesting Equilibria: Nussbaum versus Rawls -- Chapter 2 Kantian Dignity -- Chapter 3 Philosophical Literature -- Chapter 4 Trolley Problems -- Chapter 5 Lifeboats -- Chapter 6 Richard Wright’s Travails of Mann -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Be Reasonable.
    Abstract: This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature. In presenting this argument, the volume defends trolley problems from the criticism that some philosophers level against them by promoting their use as an interpretive tool for literary scholars. Starting with Martha C. Nussbaum’s interventions in literary theory concerning Henry James and perceptive equilibrium, this book draws on the philosophical thoughts of her contemporaries—Philippa Foot, John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Derek Parfit—to analyze Uncle Tom’s Children, especially “Down by the Riverside,” alongside other works by Wright. This approach emphasizes Wright’s recognition of the importance and integrity of Kant’s concept of dignity. Michael Wainwright is Honorary Research Associate at the University of London, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Faulkner’s Ethics: An Intense Struggle (2021), The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship (2018), and Game Theory and Postwar American Literature (2016), all published by Palgrave.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40216-6
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    The Zimdancehall Revolution : Critical Perspectives (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031418549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 350 p. 4 illus.)
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Popular Culture.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction and Background -- 2: Zimdancehall's Pre-History and Roots -- 3: Zimdancehall and Youth Culture -- 4: The Zimdancehall Underground and Youth Resistance from the Margins -- 5: Zimdancehall Music and the Voices of Zimbabwean Youth -- 6: Say Their Name: Zimdancehall Chanters & the Politics of Representation -- 7: Zimdancehall and The State -- 8: Zimdancehall and Everyday Urbanism -- 9. Zimdancehall's Elite Capture -- 10: Soul Jah Love's Necropolitianism -- 11: Soul Jah Love and Representations of Orphanhood and Motherhood in Zimdancehall -- 12: Soul Jah Love and the Ambivalent Representation of Women in Zimdancehall -- 13: Feminist Zimdancehall's Subversion of Women's Objectification -- 14: Religion and Spirituality in Zimdancehall -- 15: Zimdancehall and Afrofuturism -- 16: Zimdancehall's Future.
    Abstract: Zimdancehall is a musical movement in Zimbabwe that has grown significantly since 2010. The Zimdancehall Revolution brings together critical essays on various aspects of Zimdancehall culture by scholars from diverse disciplines. Traditionally, music critics and senior academics have not taken Zimdancehall seriously, regarding it as vulgar, transient, bubble gum, lacking depth, and in short, a fad. There were also allegations that the lyrics influenced factionalism, incited violence and glorified drug use and unbridled promiscuity among the youth. This book affords this movement the protracted intellectual engagement that it deserves and argues that Zimdancehall is more than just a musical genre but an everyday culture, a way of life. The genre’s close association with the ghetto is telling and enables critics to look at it as a social movement, a revolution, or a raw, petulant and raging disturbance of peace by those who live their lives on the margins. It is, thus, a violent irruption onto the public space by marginalised young people whose presence as artistes creating art from the margins, simultaneously as victims and agents, circulating in a geography that escapes the limits of nationalist ideological and physical territory, in a way subverts communitarian prescriptions and allows young people entry into the world, albeit in a painful, tumultuous and violent way. The essays range from the mapping of the genre’s historical development to theoretical interventions in understanding the genre and its relationship with various aspects of the Zimbabwean society like politics, gender, religion, language, dance, cultural values and other genres.
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    Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031449956
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 235 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Fiction. ; Economics. ; Culture.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism’s New Orientations -- 2. New Intersections in Fiction: Cosmopolitanism, Culture and Economics -- 3. Narrative Glocality and The Cosmoflâneur in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.-4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan Culture and Economics in Zadie Smith’s NW.-5. Cosmopolitan Identity and Narration in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House: The Move Towards Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.-6. Posthuman Cosmopolitanism and Post-Covid-19 Sensitivities In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun.-7. Conclusion: The Genre of The Contemporary -- References.-Index.
    Abstract: “A nuanced, carefully articulated and insightful piece of scholarship. Paying attention to urgent political and social developments, including Brexit and Covid-19, Elif Toprak Sakız deepens our understanding of the dynamic interplay between culture and economics in the twenty-first century.” - Kristian Shaw, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Lincoln, U.K “Through an engaging assessment of exemplary works of contemporary British fiction, Toprak-Sakiz provides a rich, thoughtful and critical reflection on the multiple meanings and dimensions of cosmopolitanism. This is an extremely timely and vital discussion on a key topic for our turbulent times.” - Steven Vertovec, Director of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism’s transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmoflâneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan character’s urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005), Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central. Elif Toprak Sakız holds a PhD in English Literature from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. Her areas of interest include cultural studies, twenty-first-century fiction, narrative theory and posthumanism. She is a lecturer of Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature at Dokuz Eylul University, where she has been teaching since 2010. She has published several articles in the fields of contemporary fiction, postcolonialism, gender studies and comparative literature.
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    European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Order : European Strategic Autonomy Through Differentiated Integration (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031445460
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 133 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The European Union in International Affairs
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political planning. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Integration ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staatensystem ; Internationale Organisation ; Entwicklung ; Politisches Mandat
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual framework -- 3. A differentiated European defence architecture in the making -- 4. EU (rope) and regional resilience -- 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The successive crises the EU has undergone, notably with the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have highlighted dramatically how European security includes while spans well beyond defence. Picking up from this cue, this book masterfully expands the notion of European strategic autonomy across different areas while highlighting its fundamental compatibility with the goal of building stronger partnerships beyond the EU’s borders.” — Nathalie Tocci, director at IAI in Rome “European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Context is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to the discourse on European strategic autonomy. Rieker and Giske go beyond conventional notions of defence to highlight the pressing need to address the growing risk of hybrid threats. With meticulous research and a nuanced understanding of contemporary debates on European integration and security, this volume presents a comprehensive approach to fleshing out European strategic autonomy. A must-read for policymakers, academic experts and anyone interested in understanding Europe’s evolving role on the international stage.” — Mark Leonard, director of ECFR “Rieker and Giske provide an innovative analysis of how external differentiation can help improve EU actorness and security. This is the first study that systematically brings together two core issues in European integration: external differentiation and strategic autonomy. Building on a broad empirical basis, the book makes an important contribution to current political and academic discussions on Europe’s foreign and security policy.” — Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor, ETH Zurich This is an open access book. Over the past decade, the global geopolitical context has changed significantly, with a geopolitical power shift and a more assertive Russia and China. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. But the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. But how can this be achieved in the short run? A common answer to this question is that it is impossible or that this can only be achieved in the long run, if at all. The aim of this book is to present a different perspective. It aims at showing that it should be possible to make the most out of the current European system if we adjust our understanding of how it works. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differentiated integration (DI) is seen as an asset rather than a challenge. While the EU remains the core in such a system (together with NATO in the military domain), there is a multitude of other (bilateral and minilateral) regional and sub-regional integration processes that need to be considered to get the full idea of how a more differentiated European strategic autonomy can be achieved. This book starts by presenting a theoretical framework for how to study European actorness beyond the EU (ch.2), then this framework is applied both to understand Europe as a global actor (ch. 3), Europe as an actor in security and defence (ch. 4) and Europe as a regional actor (ch. 5). Pernille Rieker holds a position as a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a part-time full professor at the Inland University College (INN). Rieker is part of NUPI's research group on security and defence and is responsible for NUPI's Center for European Studies (NCE). Furthermore, she is the co-editor of the Scandinavian journal for international studies, 'Internasjonal Politikk'. Mathilde E. Giske is a Ph.D. candidate, Department for Political studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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    Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 248 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Archaeology of Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 2: The Multinational World of Ships -- Chapter 3: Nostromo: The Nation, Nation Formation, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism -- Chapter 4: The Secret Agent: Transnationalism and Internationalism -- Chapter 5: Under Western Eyes: Internationalism and Nations -- Chapter 6: 'The Polish Problem' and Transnational Activism -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Note on the National Question. .
    Abstract: In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the product of a ‘cosmopolitan’ vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings of the term ‘cosmopolitan’. It then considers the multinational world of Conrad’s ships – and of the Merchant Marine more generally – to differentiate multinationalism from cosmopolitanism. Subsequent chapters then address nationalism, nation-formation and the concept of the nation through a reading of Nostromo; cosmopolitanism and internationalism in The Secret Agent; nationalism, internationalism and transnational activism in relation to Under Westen Eyes; and Conrad’s own transnational activism in his later essays. While drawing distinctions between cosmopolitanism, internationalism and transnationalism as the appropriate conceptual framings for Conrad’s works, this book traces Conrad’s own engagement with nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnational activism in relation to the political events of his time. Robert Hampson is Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway, University of London; Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London; and Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction, and Conrad’s Secrets.
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    Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031444821
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 189 p.)
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    Series Statement: Literary Disability Studies
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Games. ; People with disabilities
    Abstract: 1. Introduction Other Worlds, Other Selves: Moving Beyond Escapism -- 2. ‘Everyone’s a Composite’: Rethinking Three of Cyberpunk’s Overlooked Women Writers as Posthumanists -- 3. The Performing Wiggin Siblings: Reading Ender’s Game through Disability Theory -- 4. The Threat of Silence in Mark Alpert’s Dystopian Simulation -- From Memes to Comics: Virtual Embodiment in Visual Rhetoric -- 5. The Player and the Avatar: Performing as Other -- 6. Learning Through Play: An Inclusive Pedagogy for the 21st Century -- 7. Conclusion The Augmented Self: Rethinking Virtual Simulation and Disability.
    Abstract: Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction. Anelise Haukaas applies posthumanist theory to an examination of disability identity in a variety of science fiction texts: adult novels, young adult literature and comics, as well as ethnographic research with gamers. Haukaas argues that instead of being a means of escapism, simulated experiences are a valuable tool for cultivating self-acceptance and promoting empathy. Through increasingly accessible technology and innovative gameplay, traditional hierarchies are dismantled, and different ways of being are both explored and validated. Ultimately, the book aims to expand our understandings of disability, performance, and self-creation in significant ways by exploring the boundless selves that the simulated environments in these texts allow. Anelise Haukaas is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia, USA, as well as the faculty advisor of Seaswells, the art and literary magazine. Her research interests include genre fiction, disability studies, folklore and mythology, popular culture, and new media.
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    Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031439650
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 164 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Service industries. ; Communication and traffic.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: How Digital Platforms are Changing Music -- 2. Streaming: Where it Comes From -- 3. Platforms: Why Music Depends on Them -- 4. Algorithms: Who Selects Music for Us -- 5. Listeners: How They Shape Music Consumption Practices -- 6. Artificial Intelligence: Where the Music of the Future is Heading -- 7. Conclusions: What is the Value of Music. .
    Abstract: "Magaudda and Bonini present a look into digital platforms that will change the conversation about how platforms operate. Instead of assuming that platforms are neutral, Magaudda and Bonini show that platforms are embedded in networks of people. As a result, they show how platforms have become the new gatekeepers for cultural content. This book will change the way we think about platforms for years to come." —David Arditi, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA "Magaudda and Bonini are two of the most prolific and thoughtful scholars on the topic of music and technology. In this book they provide insight into how streaming platforms are shaping music production and consumption cultures. This book will help us better grasp how we can intervene in creating a music ecosystem that benefits everyone.” —Robert Prey, Assistant Professor at the Center for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands Grounded in more than a decade of field research, this book uses empirical examples, quantitative data, and qualitative interviews with young music consumers as well as music industry professionals to understand how the platforms behind music production, distribution and listening work in our digital society. Bringing together the perspectives from science and technology studies, media studies, and the political economy of digital platforms, the book outlines the process of mutual construction between music digital platforms and the cultural value of music in today’s society, and also reflects on the complicated relationship between the power of platforms and the agency of listeners. Tiziano Bonini is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Siena. He has co-edited the book Radio Audiences and Participation in the age of network society (with B. Monclus, Routledge, 2015) and co-authored the book Algorithms of Resistance (with E. Treré, MIT Press, 2024). Paolo Magaudda is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Padova. He is author of History of Digital Media (with G. Balbi, Routledge, 2018) and Youth People and The Smartphone (with M. Drusian and C.M. Scarcelli, Palgrave 2022). .
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43965-0
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    A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples : The Case of Brazil (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031505393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 259 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Indigenous peoples ; Cultural property. ; Indians of South America Legal status, laws, etc ; Indians of South America Government relations
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 The legal framework of consultation with indigenous peoples -- 3 Assessing consultation with indigenous peoples in the Inter-American System of Human Rights -- 4 Assessing consultation with indigenous peoples in Brazil -- 5 Assessing the application of consultation and indigenous peoples’ Protocols -- 6 Towards efficacy: Between the legal uncertainty of the requirement of consultation and its most adequate application for Brazil -- 7 Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers a novel perspective on consultation with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation. Engaging with current debates in international law, the study introduces a multi-dimensional perspective on consultation understood to include self-determination and cultural rights. It analyzes evidence from several countries across the Americas and Africa and presents an original and in-depth case study of Brazil. The book assesses judicial and legislative cases, drawing on relevant literature, international treaties and supplementary information gained from expert interviews. This supports the work’s broader objective to explore legal facts as well as to evaluate the empirical evidence in light of theoretical considerations. It thereby expands the understanding of consultation as a right under national legal systems and considers practical ways on how to enforce domestic redress for avoiding legal indeterminacy. The conclusions of the analysis contribute to not only a better understanding of the subject matter but also showcase ways of how to improve the realities on the ground. The book puts forward a range of recommendations directed at national authorities, international organizations, development lenders and civil society to help improve the unsatisfactory present circumstances. The intended audience encompasses legal scholars, students, practitioners and journalists, as well as anyone interested in research on the realization of indigenous peoples’ rights and the role of international law in the 21st century. .
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50539-3
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    Advances in Information and Communication Technology : Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference ICTA 2023, Volume 2 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031508189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXII, 459 p. 225 illus., 199 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 848
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Engineering mathematics. ; Engineering
    Abstract: A combination of Active Learning and Deep Learning for improving breast cancer prediction -- A Novel Arm Bone Fracture Detection Using Deep Learning -- A systematic review of Artificial Intelligence in Geographic Information Systems -- Build an effective system for container code recognition -- Building an Efficient Retriever System with Limited Resources -- Deep Learning based Coconut Fruit Maturity Classification -- Enhanced prediction of mRNA subcellular localization using a novel ensemble learning and hybrid approach.
    Abstract: This book contains four keynote abstracts and 83 best peer-reviewed papers selected from the 179 submissions at the 2nd International Conference on Advances in ICT (ICTA 2023), which share research results and practical applications in ICT research and education. Technological changes and digital transformation that have taken place over the past decade have had significant impacts on all economic and social sectors. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in general and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular have driven socio-economic growth. The topics cover all ICT-related areas and their contributions to socio-economic development, focusing on the most advanced technologies, such as AI. Researchers and practitioners in academia and industry use the books as a valuable reference for their research activities, teaching, learning, and advancing current technologies. The Conference is hosted by Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology (ICTU).
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50818-9
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    Management, Tourism and Smart Technologies : ICMTT 2023 Volume 2 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031437335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 396 p. 69 illus., 50 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 774
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Tourism. ; Management. ; Engineering
    Abstract: Impact of Logistics Training on Freight Transportation Companies in Bogotá -- Acceptance Sampling of Vegetables and Legumes in Units based on the Military Standard (MIL-STD 105E) -- Assessing the Impact of Dry Ports to the Supply Chain Safety and Security -- Factors that influence the quality of customer service in telecommunications companies -- After the hiking tour: walkers' behaviour -- Analysis of citizen satisfaction in municipal services -- The Ecotourism Landscape of Qatar -- Natural Parks image: an analysis of Tripadvisor reviews.
    Abstract: This book presents advances in the research of various entities in the world, which are working on the application of technology or management in tourism. Indeed, one of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic was tourism, likewise one of the post-pandemic effects is the rapid recovery of the sector, but more importantly is the great innovation that has occurred in marketing strategies for tourism using technology and applying management strategies not only to be more profitable but to have the best customer satisfaction. The book is aimed at the general public that seeks to innovate, learn from lessons learned and establish a knowledge base in mechanisms that apply technology or management in tourism, with the aim of improving the experience of all those involved in the business chain. This compendium aims to share all those great experiences and researches in the areas of: Managements, Tourism, Marketing strategies in Management, Tourism and Technology, Technology, Applied Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Business Administration, Cloud Computing, Educational Management, Finance, Insurance and Services Management, Health Tourism, Human Resource Management, Information Systems Planning and Management, Information Technologies in Tourism, Internet Technology, Knowledge Management, Management of Supply Chain and Logistics, Marketing Innovation, Robotics, Strategic Management Innovation, Sustainability Management, Technical Economy Management, Technical Innovation and Management, Technology in Tourism and Tourist Experience, Tourism Industry and Ecology, Tourism Management, a total of 77 research projects and many spaces and relationships between researchers to collaborate in the advancement of science are presented.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43733-5
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    English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch : From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031429101
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 343 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Early Modern Literature in History
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    Keywords: European literature ; Literature ; Europe
    Abstract: Introduction: Dutch Industry and English Identity -- Chapter One: Rescuing the Widow Belge: Chivalry in the Construction of Elizabethan Englishness -- Chapter Two: Wooing in English: Staging the Dutch in English Comedy -- Chapter Three: These Factions and Schisms: Countering Absolutist Thought in Church and State -- Chapter Four: England’s Thirst for News: Dutch News and the English Public Sphere -- Chapter Five: Rome and Carthage: Figuring the Anglo-Dutch Wars -- Chapter Six: The New Black Legend: England’s Violent Colonial Competition with the Dutch -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in Anglophone scholarship, in which the Dutch and the English wrote about each other and themselves. This interdisciplinary study brings to light the key affinities of these two nations: their embrace of liberty, turn toward Protestantism, and pursuit of commerce. It shows that as Catholic, colonial powers worked to prevent the rise of early modern Europe’s two great Protestant states, those similarities—as well as a combination of English admiration, envy, and distrust of the Dutch—produced an emulous rivalry that remade the two nations and their literature. Andrew Fleck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas in El Paso, USA, where he specializes in Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century British literature and culture. Andrew has published a variety of articles on the literary prose of this period, from Mandeville’s Travels to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Publications on the early modern English and Dutch include an essay on performing foreign tongues on the English stage (in MaRDiE), syphilis in The Dutch Courtesan (in Early Theatre), the 1603 plague epidemic (forthcoming in JMMLA), Thomas Scott and the English community in the Low Countries (in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History), and several shorter notes (in Notes and Queries and ANQ).
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42910-1
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    Proxy War Ethics: The Norms of Partnering in Great Power Competition (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031504587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 244 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Krieg ; Stellvertreterkrieg ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Feld ; Ethik ; Moral ; Internationale Norm ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1 The Nature of Proxy Relationships and their Ethics -- Chapter 2 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 1: Ancient to Modern -- Chapter 3 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 2: The Cold War -- Chapter 4 Jus ad Bellum and the Implications for Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 5 Mitigating the Moral Hazards of Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Applying the Proxy Moral Framework.
    Abstract: “At a time when proxy wars are being fought across the globe, this book should be required reading for senior military and national security officials. Professor Pfaff, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Just War, gives us a fresh and indispensable guide to the ethics and legality of proxy wars and how they fit into the long tradition of Just War. He also provides a much-needed blueprint for the containment and resolution of such conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East.” –Michael Hirsh, Columnist, Foreign Policy Magazine “Professor Pfaff's book brings clarity and rigor to an increasingly important feature of international relations: states' use of proxies to achieve indirectly what they prefer not to do directly. It makes a crucial contribution to the normative analysis of international competition by carefully identifying the potential moral harms and hazards of this type of relationship. In an era in which many conflicts feature hostilities between proxies, this book is an essential guide to understanding their nature and complexity.” --Mitt Regan, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Georgetown University Law Center "Tony Pfaff's excellent book examines the ethics of an increasingly important aspect of warfare: supporting proxies who do the actual fighting and dying to accomplish their national objectives while furthering their sponsor's interests. Highly recommended for those who care about keeping America both safe and morally strong." --Dr. John Nagl, Professor Warfighting Studies, US Army War College, and author of Eating Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya to Vietnam Proxies can effectively transfer risk and lower the costs of international competition; however, they set conditions for moral failure and hazard. Applying the framework of the Just War Tradition, this book addresses how international actors can address those challenges and establish ethical and effective security relationships. DR. C. Anthony Pfaff (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.) is the research professor for Strategy, the Military Profession and Ethics at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, a Senior Non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. .
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50458-7
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    Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy : Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital Intelligence (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031507847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 133 p. 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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    Keywords: Comparative government. ; Political science. ; Elections. ; Europe ; Public administration.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Decidim: A Brief Overview -- Chapter 2. The Political Plane: Decidim and the Vision of a Radically Democratic Society -- Chapter 3. The Technopolitical Plane: Decidim as a Democratic Software Paradigm -- Chapter 4. The Technical Plane: the Fabric of an Infrastructure -- Chapter 5. A Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: The Future of a Collective Platform.
    Abstract: This Open Access book explains the philosophy, design principles, and community organization of Decidim and provides essential insights into how the platform works. Decidim is the world leading digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, built entirely and collaboratively as free software, and used by more than 500 institutions with over three million users worldwide. The platform allows any organization (government, association, university, NGO, neighbourhood, or cooperative) to support multitudinous processes of participatory democracy. In a context dominated by corporate-owned digital platforms, in the era of increasing social structuring via Artificial Intelligence, Decidim stands as a public or community owned platform for collective human intelligence. Yet, the project is much more than its technological features. Decidim is in itself a crossroad of the various dimensions of the networked society, a detailed practical map of its complexities and conflicts. The authors distinguish three general dimensions of the project: (1) the political - shedding light on the democratic model that Decidim promotes and its impact on public policies and organizations, (2) the technopolitical - explaining how this technology is democratically designed and managed to produce and protect certain political effects, and (3) the technical - presenting the conditions of production, operation, and success of the project. This book systematically covers those three levels in an academically sound, technologically consistent, and politically innovative manner. Serving as a useful resource and handbook for the use of Decidim, it will not only appeal to students and scholars interested in participatory and digital democracy but also to professionals, policy-makers, and a wider audience interested in learning more about the Decidim platform. This is an open access book.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50784-7
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    12th World Conference “Intelligent System for Industrial Automation” (WCIS-2022) : Volume 1 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031515217
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 402 p. 118 illus., 67 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 718
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Industrial engineering. ; Production engineering.
    Abstract: This book presents the first volume of the proceedings of the 12th World Conference "Intelligent systems for industrial automation", WCIS-2022 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on November 25-26, 2022. It includes contributions from diverse areas of intelligent industrial systems design, intelligent information systems, decision making under imperfect information and others. The topics of the papers include hybrid control systems, pattern recognition, industry 4.0, information security, neural computing, fuzzy computation, decision making and support systems, and others.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51521-7
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    Urban Private Housing in Nigeria : Understanding Residential Quality and Housing Preference Dynamics in Metropolitan Lagos (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031474323
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 208 p. 27 illus., 25 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: Introduction to housing -- Lagos metropiltan area: Physical, historical and housing development -- Residential quality and housing preference theories -- Empirical perspectives on housing quality and preference -- Heuristic methods for assessing residential quality and housing preference -- Lagos households’ socio-demographic and residential characteristics -- Residential quality and revealed housing preference -- Residential quality and stated housing preference -- Discussion and implications of findings on residential quality and housing preferences -- Recommendations and conclusions on residential quality and housing preferences.
    Abstract: This book explains the variation and determinants of residential quality and housing preferences in urban private housing markets. It describes the residential characteristics and housing preference dynamics of Lagos urban residents who are majorly sheltered in the city’s private housing markets. Lagos Metropolitan Area (LMA) is a wide region with differentiated informal housing markets. The city private housing markets vary in quantity, quality, and prices which conjointly influence residents housing preferences and choices. Based on positivist philosophical stance, this book addresses the peculiarities of each residential market in Low Residential Density (LRD), Medium Residential Density (MRD), and High Residential Density (HRD) areas in terms of residential quality and housing preferences. With heuristic methods including predictive model and conjoint choice experimentation, this book unravels the level and variability of residential quality (neighborhood and structural) and housing preference (revealed and stated) decisions in Metropolitan Lagos. In addition, the residential quality and housing preferences are mapped to give their spatial patterns across Lagos megacity neighborhoods as segmented residential submarkets. Applying the positivist philosophical stance, the book provides evidence to support residential quality and housing preference variability across the city private housing submarkets. The book is both a guide and reference for students in the built environment, urban planners, urban policy decision makers, housing researchers, property managers, and real estate professionals who are interested in understanding the residential quality and preference dynamics within polarized cities.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47432-3
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    Intelligent Systems, Business, and Innovation Research (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031368950
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 978 p. 252 illus., 218 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 489
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Engineering ; Engineering mathematics.
    Abstract: 1.Universal Adversarial Perturbation -- Automated Environmental Mapping with Behavior Trees -- Multi-objective Automatic Clustering with Gene Rearrangement -- Impact of immersive technology and virtual work environment, on innovative work behaviour -- Innovation capability and the relationship between entrepreneurial resources and micro-business performance. -- Impact of Cloud Computing as a digital technology on SMEs sustainability -- Digital innovation and agri-business -- The Usage of Artificial Intelligence in management process -- Artificial Intelligence to Human Resources Management -- others.(Green Finance, Digital Finance, and their challenges on traditional businesses -- Artificial Intelligence and Public Governance: citizens perspective in the context of a developing nation -- Fintech Innovations and the potential for green investment -- Blockchains, tokens and entrepreneurship).
    Abstract: Intelligent systems research is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the development of systems that can perceive, reason, and act autonomously. This can include areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and robotics. The goal of intelligent systems research is to develop systems that can understand, learn from, and adapt to their environment, to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. Business and innovation research is an interdisciplinary field that examines how organizations can create, develop, and implement new ideas, products, and services. This can include areas such as organizational behaviour, strategic management, and marketing. The goal of business and innovation research is to understand how organizations can foster an environment that encourages creativity and innovation, and how they can develop and implement new ideas in a way that leads to success. Intelligent Systems, Business and Innovation Research is a research area that brings together these two fields to study the use of intelligent systems and technologies in the business context to drive innovation, improve operational efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. The book aims to understand how intelligent systems can be used in business applications, how to design and implement them, how to manage the associated challenges, and how to leverage them to foster innovation, create new business models, and gain competitive advantage. It offers guidance on how to navigate potential conflicts and challenges that may arise during multidisciplinary research in areas such as Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, modern machine learning, software agent applications, and data science. The book focuses on the various fields in which intelligent systems play a critical role in enabling the development of advanced technologies that can perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. For example, in smart/control systems, intelligent algorithms can be used to optimize the performance of machines and devices, while in cyber security, they can be used to protect networks and data from cyber-attacks. In bioinformatics, intelligent systems can be used to analyse large amounts of biological data, while in virtual reality and robotics, they can be used to create realistic and responsive simulations and automatons. Additionally, the book also highlights the rapidly advancing theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, mathematical logic, and non-classical logic. These are important theoretical frameworks for the development of intelligent systems, as they provide the foundation for the representation and manipulation of uncertainty, complexity, and imprecision. These theoretical foundations are essential in the development of intelligent systems that can make decisions and perform tasks in uncertain, complex, and dynamic environments.
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    Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance : Banks, Instruments, and the Role of Women (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031452222
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 285 p. 37 illus., 30 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
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    Keywords: Financial services industry. ; Business enterprises ; Macroeconomics. ; Industrial policy. ; ESG performance ; sustainable finance ; ESG ; banking ; sustainable bonds ; gender gap in finance ; financial regulation ; sustainable development goals ; social impact ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction.-Part 1. Debating ESG Financial Topics. Chapter 2. Sustainability literature orientation: Evidence from finance academic research -- Chapter 3. First assessment of EU Taxonomy regulation for Italian banks -- Chapter 4. Sustainable finance: A Quest for Value from ICO -- Part 2 - ESG Instruments and Sectors. Chapter 5.A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Finance -- Chapter 6. Exploring the Shades of Green Premium: A Matching Approach -- Chapter 7. Sustainable finance for maritime development. a critical analysis of green bonds in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan -- Part 3 – Governance and the Role of Women. Chapter 8. Are women the panacea? Exploring the Direction of Socially Responsible Commitment -- Chapter 9. Social Sustainability in Equity Crowdfunding: the role of women in the platforms' Boards.
    Abstract: This book showcases cutting-edge research on a variety of themes related to sustainable and impact investments. It sheds light, theoretically and empirically, on three particular contemporary challenges for sustainable finance: shifts in banking toward prioritizing sustainable growth, the rapid evolution of sustainable bonds, and the growing role of women in sustainable finance. The first section of the book explores the benefits for banks and the financial industry from integrating sustainable finance into their business processes, as well as the role banks play in allocating resources toward a decarbonized economy. Chapters discuss risk reduction and the reputational boost for banks, as well as assessing the impact of new regulation frameworks targeted at sustainable growth. The second part examines sustainable financial products, with a focus on green bonds, and discusses how they can be used for long-term financing for sustainable projects, encourage accountability and transparency, stimulate market growth, manage risk, and benefit the environment and society more broadly. The final section of the book takes an internal look at sustainable finance and addresses the significant role that women play, helping to develop more creative and practical solutions, serving as role models, and increasing involvement in the financial sector. Combining academic analysis with practical examples from the industry, this book is useful to students and researchers working in sustainable finance, banking, and financial regulation. Mario La Torre is Full Professor of Sustainable Finance and Impact Banking at the Department of Management, Sapienza University of Rome. Mario carries out research in banking, financial intermediaries and financial markets, impact finance and ethical finance, and finance for the culture and media industry. He is Author and Co-author of many international books and papers. He is Editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. Sabrina Leo is Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is Lecturer in Bank Account Strategies and Performance and Digital Banking and Economics of Financial Intermediaries. Her recent research has been focusing on innovation in the payment system and the impact of technologies in the financial system.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45222-2
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    Disruptive Information Technologies for a Smart Society : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Society and Technology (ICIST) (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031507557
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 527 p. 209 illus., 163 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 872
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Software engineering. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Part I: ICT for Health, Well-being and Sport -- Prediction of coronary plaque progression using data mining and artificial neural networks -- Rule-Based System For Pregnancy Monitoring -- Finite element analysis of myocardial work in cardiomyopathy -- Saccade Identification During Driving Simulation from Eye Tracker Data with Low-sampling Frequency -- Digital Technologies to support the Decision-Making Process for Dental Implants Treatment Planning -- SGABU Computational Platform as a Tool for Improved Education and Research in Multiscale Modelling -- The Importance of Genetic and Clinical Data features in Risk Stratification of Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy -- Haptic user interface for biomechanical feedback in aquatic sports: usability study -- Overview of Deep Learning Retinal Vessel Segmentation Methods from Fundus Images -- Convolutional Neural Network for Atherosclerotic Plaque Multiclass Image Segmentation in Transverse Ultrasound Images of Carotid Artery -- Part II: Applied Artificial Intelligence -- Using AutoML for AI service deployment -- Comparison of Deep Learning Algorithms for Facial Keypoints Detection -- Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration and Business Sector: A Bibliometric Review in Comparative Perspective -- Machine Learning Model as a Service in Smart Agriculture Systems -- A semi-supervised framework for anomaly detection and data labeling for industrial control systems -- Multilingual transformer and BERTopic for short text topic modeling: the case of Serbian -- Evaluation of head-up display for conditionally automated vehicles -- Visual programming support for the explainable artificial intelligence -- Multi-criteria decision making in turning operations using AHP, TOPSIS and WASPAS methods -- CNN-Based Object Detection for Robot Grasping in Cluttered Environment -- Performance Prediction of bio-inspired Compliant Grippers using Machine Learning Algorithms -- Part III:Digital Water -- HPC-based decision support system for remediation works on a dam -- Analysis of seepage through an embankment dam within the framework of hydropower system resilience assessment -- Statistical method for the DDF curves estimation under changing climate -- Technology platform for hydroinformatics systems -- Part IV:Computer Based Learning -- Novel approach for education in biomedical engineering based on atomic learning -- Ontology development approach adopting analogy and competency questions -- Educational system for demonstrating Remote attacks on Android Devices -- CRETE – Code REview Tool for Education -- The architecture of citizen science open data repository based on version control platforms -- Automatic Population of Educational Ontology from Course Materials -- Visual Question Answering - VizWiz challenge -- Part V:Digitalization in Energy sector -- Hybrid Approach in Thermal Demand Forecasting of a Building -- Digital solution to estimate solar power potential of rooftops in city of Belgrade -- Platform for efficient building operation and Demand Response flexibility provision -- Framework for optimizing neural network hyper parameters for accurate wind production forecasting -- Demand-side optimization of hybrid energy systems with heat pumps -- Scalable real-time simulation of electrical power system models in the cloud -- Part VI:Advanced Information Systems -- Relying on E-Contracting and Smart Contracts to Facilitate Legally Enforceable Conformance Checking in Collaborative Production -- Can memes beat the market? A roadmap to forecasting financial asset returns by using social media data and Machine Learning -- Access control in a distributed micro-cloud environment -- E-Government Requirements Specification Based on BPMN -- Towards a Formal Specification and Automatic Execution of ETLs in Cross-Organizational Business Processes -- Task queue implementation for edge computing platform -- Authentication and identity management based on zero trust security model in micro-cloud environment -- Supporting Integrative Code Generation with Traceability Links and Code Fragment Integrity Checks -- Model for Evaluating Points-to Analysis in GraalVM Native Image Using Instrumentation-based Profiling -- A Reference Architecture for Secure IoT.
    Abstract: This book aims at meeting the challenge of getting along with today’s unprecedented rate of innovation supported by disruptive digital technologies, which changed the perception of the productivity and effectiveness and opened a gateway to more than ever dynamic advances in solving the important societal challenges. "Disruptive Information Technologies for a Smart Society" is the proceedings book of the 13th International conference for information society and technologies that brings together experts from various fields to discuss the latest advancements in software engineering, machine learning, digital water, and ICT for health and sport. The book and the conference serve as a platform for researchers of all career stages in technical sciences, especially Ph.D. students, practitioners, and industry experts in health care, energy, Fintech, AI, and other areas to share and learn on the cutting-edge technologies and stay at the forefront of these rapidly evolving fields.
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    Intelligent Systems and Applications : Proceedings of the 2023 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) Volume 3 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031477157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 873 p. 335 illus., 274 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 824
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: The book is a unique collection of studies involving intelligent systems and applications of artificial intelligence in the real world to provide solutions to most vexing problems. IntelliSys received an overwhelming 605 papers which were put under strict double-blind peer-review for their novelty, originality and exhaustive research. Finally, 227 papers were sieved and chosen to be published in the proceedings. This book is a valuable collection of all the latest research in the field of artificial intelligence and smart systems. It provides a ready-made resource to all the readers keen on gaining information regarding the latest trends in intelligent systems. It also renders a sneak peek into the future world governed by artificial intelligence.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47715-7
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    Smart Tourism–The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031508837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 178 p. 34 illus., 33 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Intelligent Systems Reference Library 249
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Tourism. ; Management.
    Abstract: This book offers a fresh perspective on smart tourism, introducing unique frameworks and insights with the potential to shape the industry's future. It explores the convergence of technology, tourism, and smart cities, emphasizing the use of smartphones, social media data, AI, blockchain, crowdsourcing, and crowdsensing to enhance tourism experiences. What sets it apart is its focus on practical solutions that require minimal infrastructure investments, making it accessible to a wide range of stakeholders. This book addresses knowledge gaps and proposes cutting-edge frameworks for smart tourism development. It is intended for researchers, academics, and professionals in tourism, technology, and urban planning. Key uses of this book include providing a comprehensive overview of the evolving smart tourism landscape and serving as a valuable resource for researchers and educators in this dynamic field.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50883-7
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    Chaotic Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Structures (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031489181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 342 p. 153 illus., 149 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1129
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Mathematical optimization.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chaotic Maps and Meta-Heuristic Algorithms -- Chaotic Cyclical Parthenogenesis Algorithm -- Chaotic Teaching Learning-Based Optimization -- Chaotic Biogeography Based Optimization -- Chaotic Differential Evolution -- Chaotic Water Evaporation Optimization -- Chaotic Artificial Bees Colony -- Chaotic Imperialist Competitive Algorithm.
    Abstract: In this book, various chaos maps are embedded in eleven efficient and well-known metaheuristics and a significant improvement in the optimization results is achieved. The two basic steps of metaheuristic algorithms consist of exploration and exploitation. The imbalance between these stages causes serious problems for metaheuristic algorithms, which are immature convergence and stopping in local optima. Chaos maps with chaotic jumps can save algorithms from being trapped in local optima and lead to convergence toward global optima. Embedding these maps in the exploration phase, exploitation phase, or both simultaneously corresponds to three efficient and useful scenarios. By creating competition between different modes and increasing diversity in the search space and creating sudden jumps in the search phase, improvements are achieved for chaotic algorithms. Four Chaotic Algorithms, including Chaotic Cyclical Parthenogenesis Algorithm, Chaotic Water Evaporation Optimization, Chaotic Tug-of-War Optimization, and Chaotic Thermal Exchange Optimization are developed.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-48918-1
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    Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031427985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 330 p. 18 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Literary Urban Studies
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Space. ; Culture. ; Art, Modern ; Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Cities and towns
    Abstract: “(Im)mobility, Peripherality, and the City: Theoretical Orientations and Concepts”, Patricia García; Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Alcalá; University of Eastern Finland) -- “Cihuateteo Wandering: navigating the Mexican Urban Space as a Woman”, Orly Cortés (UAM-Xochimilco) -- “Urban Ambivalence: Work and Home at Delhi’s margins”, Anubhav Pradhan (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai) -- “The Nomadic Subject in Teju Cole’s Open City”, Aristi Trendel (Le Mans University) -- “Space, Mobility, and Belonging: Finding One’s Way through Pre-Apartheid Johannesburg”, Sophie U. Kriegel (Leipzig University) -- “Moving Upward in the City: Modes of Transport and Social Mobility in New York, My Village: A Novel and Behold the Dreamers", Lena Englund (University of Eastern Finland) -- “Delhi on the Move: a Literary Account on Urban Mobility”, Valentina Barnabei (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University) -- “Abject Urban-Rural Mobilities by Public Transport in Ousmane Sembène's "Niiwam" and Yvonne Vera's Without a Name”, Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland) -- “'We take boundaries very seriously here at Positron!’: Transitions and Liminal Space in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last”, Olga Springer (Dublin City University) -- “Space, Borders and Cognition in Urban Diasporic Fiction”, Johan Schimanski (University of Oslo) -- “What Lurks in the Peripheries: The Unusual in Liminal Suburban Territories in Recent Short Story Collections”, Rosa-María Cobo (Universidad de Burgos) -- “Moving on the Fringes of Literary Barcelona: Contemporary Novels from the Catalan Peripheries”, Patricia García (Universidad de Alcalá) -- “Once upon a Queer: Sexual Monstrosity, Sexual Misery and the Metropolis”, Jean-Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University) -- “From the Cartographic Fringes: Map Mobilizations and the Urban”, Tania Rossetto (University of Padova) -- “Narratives of Border Crossing in Kati Horna’s Photographic Tales”, Karla Segura Pantoja (CY Cergy Paris Université) -- “Urban//Rural: An Art Perspective”, Federica Mirra (Birmingham City University) -- “The (Political) Power of Not Moving”, Inga Iwasiów and Maciej Kowalewski (University of Szczecin).
    Abstract: Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts. Across a range of geographical contexts, this volume builds on the new mobilities paradigm developed by literary scholars, sociologists and human geographers. The different chapters employ a cohesive framework that is sensitive to the intersecting dimensions of power and discrimination that shape urban kinetic features. The contributions are divided into three sections, each of which places the focus on a different aspect of urban mobility: Itinerant Subjects, Modes of Transport and Places of Transit, and Urban Liminalities. Patricia García is a senior researcher in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), where she currently leads a Ramón y Cajal project on urban peripheries in contemporary literature (2020-2025, Ministerio de Universidades, ES and European Social Fund) . Her research focuses on literary urban spaces, which she analyzes at their intersections with peripherality, gender and with representations of the supernatural. She is the author of The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature (Palgrave, 2021) and Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2015). She has held fellowships and research grants from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the British Academy. She directs the network Fringe Urban Narratives (urbanfringes.com). She is the Vice-President of ALUS: Association for Literary Urban Studies, a member of the Executive Committees of the European Society of Comparative Literature and part of the editorial board of BRUMAL: Research Journal on the Fantastic. She is co-editor of the Palgrave series Literary Urban Studies. Anna-Leena Toivanen is Academy Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland. Her current research project, funded by the Academy of Finland (2021-2025), focuses on the poetics of mobility in Francophone African literatures. She has held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Liège (2017-2019). Her monograph Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures was published by Brill in 2021, and she is currently working on her second book entitled Afroeuropean Mobilities in Francophone African Literatures (Palgrave Macmillan) She acts as the literary studies subject editor of the Nordic Journal of African Studies and has previously acted as the editor-in-chief of the Finnish literary studies journal Avain (2018-2019). She is in the editorial board of Mobility Humanities. She has co-edited a special issue entitled “European Peripheries” for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2021) and is currently guest-editing a special issue on public transport in African literatures for English Studies in Africa (forthcoming in 2024).
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    Unsettling Theologies : Memory, Identity, and Place (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031461217
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 245 p. 13 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Postcolonialism and Religions
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Liberation theology. ; Christianity and culture. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- Part I Unsettling Whiteness -- 2 Jesus Christ, Once Was a Savage! Selective Memory, Staged Identity, and Stolen Spaces -- 3 ‘The Poor Bugger Has Suffered Enough’: Vernon Ah Kee, Warwick Thornton, and the Unmaking of a White Jesus -- 4 Unsettling Jesus Christ: Indigenous and Settler Christologies in the Aftermath of Colonisation -- 5 Unsettling Theologies Means Unsettling Theological Institutions! -- Part II Dismantling Colonial Systems -- 6 Uncovering the Mat: Restorative Justice for the Dawn Raids? -- 7 ‘It’s Giving … Colonization’: Challenges to Mental Resilience for Diasporic Christian Pacific Youth -- 8 Unsettling Providential Partnership: A Critical Examination of Robert Maunsell and George Grey’s Partnership in Māori Education -- 9 Spiritualities of Belonging and Intercultural Politics in Australia -- 10 To Conquer and Subdue: An Ecological Reading of Wilderness in Jeremiah 17:5–8 and Beyond -- Part III Un-silencing Alter-Native Theologies -- 11 Taught to Fish but Still Starving: Unsettling Theological Hermeneutics in Oceania -- 12 Archives: From Places of Silence and Silencing to Places of Regeneration -- 13 Beyond the Tautologa: Tu(akoi) from a Geopolitical Lens -- 14 Unsettling Economies: A Moana Account(ing).
    Abstract: How can we understand and respond to past and present entanglements of Christianity with colonisation? What kinds of theological perspectives and approaches are needed in the wake of colonisation and its impact? Unsettling Theologies includes responses to these questions from Aboriginal, Māori, Pasifika, and White scholars. Brian Fiu Kolia is Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at Malua Theological College and an ordained minister of the Congregational Christian Church, Samoa. He grew up in Australia and Samoa and his roots go back to the villages of Sili Savaii, Satapuala, Tufutafoe, and Faleaseela. Michael Mawson is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland/ Waipapa Taumata Rau. He is a Pākehā New Zealander with Scottish and English ancestry.
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    Local Electoral Participation in Europe : The Roots of Municipal Politics (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031509063
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 125 p. 27 illus., 21 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Elections. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Electoral turnout: the challenge at the local level -- Chapter 2: Between national and municipal: The European map of municipal electoral participation -- Chapter 3: What drives municipal-national differences in turnout? Towards a compounded explanation -- Chapter 4: Conclusion: what about local turnout?
    Abstract: While electoral participation is a traditional topic in political science, voter turnout at the local level is still largely uncharted. There are very few large-N comparative works on municipal turnout and, as a result, a lack of a comprehensive comparative picture of local electoral participation. This book aims to fill that gap by taking an innovative approach to the topic. The volume makes three major advances at the empirical, methodological and theoretical levels. Empirically, it provides a large-N comparison by covering 18 European countries and more than 70,000 municipalities. Methodologically, the book uses the multi-level congruence theory to study municipal turnout in relation to national turnout, exploring the variation between those levels. Theoretically, it bridges the two main (and often mutually exclusive) strands in the literature on local elections – the lower-rank and different-kind approaches – and it assesses the features and mechanisms of local voting. Silvia Bolgherini is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Perugia, Italy. Her research interests include electoral studies, comparative political systems and local government. She has published widely on these topics in international journals and is a co-author of Germany after the Grand Coalition: Governance and Politics in a Turbulent Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Selena Grimaldi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Macerata, Italy. Her research interests include presidential studies, electoral studies, comparative political systems and local elites. She is the author of The Informal Powers of Western European Presidents: A Way out of Weakness? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Aldo Paparo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence, Italy. His main research interests are elections and voting behaviour, with a particular focus on the local level. His research has appeared in Political Psychology, West European Politics, Electoral Studies, South European Society and Politics, Local Government Studies and Italian Political Science Review.
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    The Protection of Fundamental Rights in OLAF Composite Enforcement Procedures (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031451096
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 627 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Law ; Criminal law ; Civil rights. ; European communities. ; Criminal law. ; Europe
    Abstract: PART I CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- The role of fundamental rights in olaf composite enforcement procedures -- PART II TOP-DOWN: THE EU LEGAL FRAMEWORK -- OLAF -- PART III BOTTOM-UP: THE NATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS -- The Netherlands -- Germany -- PART IV: THE CATHEDRAL AND THE BAZAARS – AN INTEGRATION OF FRAMEWORKS -- Fundamental rights problems in OLAF composite enforcement procedures -- The protection of fundamental rights in OLAF composite enforcement procedures: conclusions, recommendations and an EPPO outlook.
    Abstract: This book focuses on OLAF, the European Union’s anti-fraud office, and examines the role of and challenges concerning fundamental rights in OLAF’s composite enforcement procedure. The mission of OLAF (Office Européen de Lutte Antifraude) is to fight fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities that affect the financial interests of the European Union. To this end, OLAF carries out administrative investigations, in which it gathers evidence itself, and coordination cases, in which it coordinates the Member States’ investigations. OLAF’s investigation and coordination efforts are conceived of as mere derivatives of other more traditional forms of law enforcement cooperation in which authorities enter into obligations to cooperate with one another, but in which each acts to fulfill these obligations within its own separately identifiable legal order and on the basis of its own law. This system, in its most conventional form, is founded on the notion of territorial sovereignty. If we extend the logic of this approach from enforcement (the ‘sword’) to fundamental rights (the ‘shield’), issues in relation to the latter – and the accompanying responsibility to prevent and/or remedy them – can arise only in individual (sovereign) legal orders. The way in which we view OLAF, as an evolved cognate of traditional forms of law enforcement cooperation, therefore directly dictates which fundamental rights issues enter into the equation, and in which manner. This book proposes an innovative way of looking at OLAF, which we refer to as ‘composite enforcement procedures.’ In this type of procedure, responsibilities for the entirety of enforcement are attributed to inextricably interlinked European Union and Member State legal orders. If we observe OLAF through this new lens, fundamental rights issues that would otherwise go unnoticed come to the forefront. These are issues that arise not in individual legal orders, but rather between or among the European Union and the Member States. This book addresses these fundamental rights challenges and makes concrete recommendations on how they can be addressed and resolved.
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    The European Integration, Vol. 2 : Institutions and Policies (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031471766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 463 p. 689 illus., 671 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Texts in Political Science and International Relations
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    Keywords: Europe ; Comparative government. ; Economics. ; Social choice. ; Political science. ; Economic policy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives on European Integration and its Evolutionary Trajectory -- Chapter 3. The Institutions of the European Union and the Legislative Procedures -- Chapter 4. The Perception of 'Democratic Deficit' in the European Union -- Chapter 5. The Budget of the European Union and the Underpinning of Union’s Policies -- Chapter 6. The Common Agricultural Policy: Purpose, Evolution, and Future Projections -- Chapter 7. Regional Policy: Disparities, Development, and Future Direction -- Chapter 8. Economic and Monetary Policy: Origin, Evolution, and Current Challenges -- Chapter 9. Foreign and Defence Policy: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges -- Chapter 10. Social Policy: Evolution, Impact, and Current Challenges -- Chapter 11. Environmental Policy: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions -- Chapter 12. Migration Policy: Historical Progress, Current Status, and Future Directions -- Chapter 13. Overview: The European Integration, Volume I & Volume II.
    Abstract: This two-volume textbook teaches about the uniqueness and the difficulty of the European unification project. It describes, as clearly as possible, what Robert Schuman declared in 1950, that "... Europe will not be made all at once…". Navigating the nexus of four academic fields - political science, institutional analysis, economics, and history - the book serves as a reference work for accurate, exhaustive, and well-researched information on the creation and functioning of the European Union. Volume 2 provides a comprehensive overview of the European Union's institutions and policies, such as agricultural and fisheries policies, economic and monetary policy, environmental policy, foreign affairs and defence policy, social policy, competition policy, regional policy, as well as immigration and asylum policy. Supported by numerous photographs, diagrams, maps, and sources, the book will serve as an essential textbook for undergraduate and graduate students studying the subject of European integration, as well as a useful resource for a broader audience interested in the European integration process.
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    Federalism, devolution and cleavages in Africa (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031504266
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 449 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Federalism and internal conflicts
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Africa ; Peace. ; Comparative government. ; Zweite Kammer ; Verfassungsrecht ; Organisation ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Dezentralisation ; Afrika
    Abstract: 1. The Nation State, Normative Assumptions and Rival Nationalisms -- 2. Federations: Main Features -- 3. Federations and Second Chambers -- 4. Federalism, Devolution and Territorially Based Cleavages in Africa: Does Institutional Design Matter? -- 5. Devolution and Transition in Sudan -- 6. Constitutional adjudication and Constitutional Governance -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between federalism, social divides and conflict in African countries. It details the origins, design and performance of major federal and quasi-federal states to assess their performance and propose new methods for managing these divides. Drawing on evidence from countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, the book examines the nature and causes of ethnonationalism, mobilisation and confrontation with the nation state. The book is a comprehensive treatment of the five major federal and devolved systems in Africa. It explains their origin, design and operation, and assesses their performance. More importantly, the book explains the distinct nature of federal and devolved systems in the Global South. Federal and devolved systems in Africa cannot be understood in isolation from the nature of state power on the continent. The book explains the impact of unregulated state power on the dynamics of federal and devolved systems in Africa. Federalism and devolution have not failed but have been betrayed – both in the past and the present – in serving as a venue for accommodation, intergovernmental bargaining and negotiated reform. Assefa Fiseha is Professor of Law and Governance at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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    Synergetic Cooperation Between Robots and Humans : Proceedings of the CLAWAR 2023 Conference—Volume 1 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031472695
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 264 p. 169 illus., 148 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 810
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Biped walking with robots and exoskeletons: Marching towards bionic gait -- Multibody dynamics with contact-impact events: Roots, models and applications -- Human-like bipedal locomotion -- Analysis of the influence of human exposure to risk and ESG as motivators for the implementation of climbing and mobile robots -- Multidimensional map: A conceptual design tool to develop robots for power lines -- Mobility strategy of multi-limbed climbing robots for asteroid exploration.
    Abstract: CLAWAR 2023 is the 26th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and Mobile Machine Support Technologies. The conference is organized by CLAWAR Association in collaboration with the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, during October 2–4, 2023. This book provides the latest research and development findings and state-of-the-art insights into the mobile robotics and associated technologies in a diverse range of application scenarios, within the framework of “Synergetic Cooperation Between Robots and Humans”. The topics covered include climbing and inspection robots, education in robotics and robotics in education, hybrid and convertible UAVs, legged robots, multibody systems and mechanism design in robotics, planning and control, robotic navigation, robotics and neurotechnologies for healthcare improvements, and simulation and digital twins in robotic applications. The intended readership includes participants of CLAWAR 2023 conference, worldwide researchers, scientists, and educators in the areas of robotics and related topics. The book is also a good source for courses in robotics and automation, control engineering, mechanical engineering, and mechatronics.
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    Fundamental and Applied Scientific Research in the Development of Agriculture in the Far East (AFE-2022) : Agricultural Cyber-Physical Systems, Volume 1 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031379789
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIX, 1403 p. 348 illus., 247 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 733
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Cooperating objects (Computer systems). ; Agriculture.
    Abstract: The scope of this book is cyber-physical systems used for the sustainable development and productivity of the agricultural sector. The book contains proceedings of the conference “Fundamental and Applied Scientific Research in the Development of Agriculture in the Far East” (AFE-2022, Tashkent, Uzbekistan). The results of research in the following areas are presented here: software-as-a-service solutions for orchard management, ICT components of Smart Agriculture (SA), farm management platforms, yield monitoring and estimation, IoTs in farming, water management, and smart agriculture machines. The book contains information on the latest technologies in precision agriculture, including real-time technology and big data analytics, fertilizer and sprayer controllers, robotics, variable rate irrigation, networks and remote sensing technologies, etc. The research results presented in the book help in making the right decisions about the allocation of resources in agricultural systems.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37978-9
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    Institutional Inertia : Theory and Evidence (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031511752
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 352 p. 30 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Economics
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    Keywords: Evolutionary economics. ; Institutional economics. ; Economic development. ; Entrepreneurship. ; New business enterprises. ; institutional inertia ; institutional change ; organizational inertia ; economic growth ; displacement ; layering ; drift ; conversion ; path-dependency ; economic growth ; development ; institutional-organizational nexus ; Douglas North
    Abstract: I. Concepts, Types, Causes, and Effects -- Inertia: resistance and endurance -- An Introduction to Institutional Inertia: Concept, Types and Causes -- The Origin of Development, Critical Juncture, and Institutional Inertia -- Context, Institutional Inertia and Development -- Inertia in Informal Institutions: Concepts, and Effects -- II. Cognitive Inertia -- The Roots of Cognitive Inertia: An Introduction to Institutional Changes -- Cognitive Inertia as a Fundamental Cause of Institutional Inertia -- III. Organizational Inertia -- Overview of Institutional–Organization Inertia Nexus -- Internal Empowerment Dynamics of Organizational Inertia Management -- IV. Trade, Energy and Environments -- Trade and Institutional Inertia -- The Transition to Sustainable -- Energy and Institutional Inertia -- Legitimacy, Institutional Inertia, and Climate Change -- V. Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- Early Entrepreneurship Entry and Institutional Rigidities in Emerging Market Economies: Evidence from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor -- Inertia, Innovation Failures, And Learning from Innovation Failures: Some Insights from MSEs in an Emerging Market Economy .
    Abstract: This edited volume explores the concept of institutional inertia and its relationship to economic growth and development. Including insights from experts across disciplines, chapters identify the types, causes and effects—both positive and negative—of institutional inertia. By questioning the types of institutional inertia that improve economic performance and impact the effectiveness of the state, as well as studying their role in the dynamics of institutional change, the volume attempts to trace and understand the different evolutionary paths of societies. Bridging important research gaps, this volume will be of use to students, researchers, and practitioners of institutional and evolutionary economics, development economics, management, and organizational theory.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51175-2
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    The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi : Toward a Post-Critical Platonism (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031412110
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 259 p.)
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    Keywords: Metaphysics. ; Science
    Abstract: Introduction -- Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Approach to Philosophy -- Polanyi’s Copernican Realism: Content, Reception, and Relation to Three Contemporary Realisms -- From Epistemology to Metaphysics -- The Material and the Immaterial in a Post-Critical Platonist Metaphysics -- Aristotle, Plato, and Polanyi on Access to Forms -- Post-Critical Platonism -- Conclusion./.
    Abstract: “A provocative interpretation of such Polanyian ideas as fields, ordering principles, and comprehensive entities which re-energize Plato’s notion of the Forms.” —Walter Gulick, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Humanities and Religious Studies, Montana State University Billings “Some of the most intellectually exciting work in Polanyi studies. It promises to have an important impact beyond most all that has gone before. It makes plain how Polanyi fits into the history of metaphysics and it enables us to see beyond Polanyi's own shortcomings and lacunae qua philosopher, resolving many of the long-standing controversies among Polanyi scholars.” —Dale Cannon, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Western Oregon University This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi – the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher – bridges the gap between speculative metaphysics and scientific practice, thus making sense of the broad swathe of human experience in a phenomenologically satisfying fashion. The central proposal is that Polanyi is a Platonist due to his affirmation of the ontological status of abstract objects, with particular focus placed on the question of uninstantiated universals. The book engages contemporary, speculative realists from both continental and analytic traditions as it introduces Polanyi’s influential epistemology and unpacks the fascinating metaphysics implied thereby. It then proceeds to develop Polanyi’s rather unsystematic metaphysics into a coherent, post-critical Platonism which incorporates his well-known theory of tacit knowledge, thus achieving something akin to the ancient Neoplatonic synthesis of Plato and Aristotle in our contemporary, scientific context. Martin E. Turkis II is a philosopher, teacher, and musician residing in San Francisco. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy with honors from the University of Navarra. His interests include political economy, virtue ethics, and philosophy of education. He is an associate editor of the journal Tradition and Discovery.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41211-0
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    Advances in Internet, Data & Web Technologies : The 12th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data & Web Technologies (EIDWT-2024) (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031535550
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 651 p. 317 illus., 262 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 193
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Big data.
    Abstract: Few Shot Ner on Augmented Unstructured Text from Cardiology Records -- The Influence of Financial Literacy and Financial Technology on Smes' Sustainability -- The Effect of Digital and Human Capital Transformation on Sme Performance With Accounting Information Systems as an Intervening Variable -- Openvslam-based Development Framework for Web-based Vr Tours Using 360vr Videos and Its Extensions -- Implementation of a Fuzzy-based System for Assessment of Logical Trust Considering Reliability as a New Parameter -- Source Code Vulnerability Detection Based on Graph Structure Representation and Attention Mechanisms -- An Efficient Vulnerability Detection Method for 5g Nas Protocol Based on Combinatorial Testing -- Graph-based Detection of Encrypted Malicious Traffic with Spatio-temporal Features -- Fuzzing Iot Devices via Android App Interfaces with Large Language Model -- Towards the Automated Population of Thesauri Using Bert: A Use Case on the Cybersecurity Domain -- Network Scanning Detection Based on Spatiotemporal Behavior -- Iotaint: An Optimized Static Taint Analysis Method in Embedded Firmware -- An Innovative Approach to Real-time Concept Drift Detection in Network Security -- Formal Analysis of 5g Eap-tls 1.3 -- Perceiving Human Psychological Consistency: Attack Detection Against Advanced Persistent Social Engineering.
    Abstract: The book presents original contributions to the theories and practices of emerging internet, data, and web technologies and their applicability in businesses, engineering, and academia. As a key feature, it addresses advances in the life-cycle exploitation of data generated from the digital ecosystem data technologies that create value for the knowledge and businesses toward a collective intelligence approach. Internet has become the most proliferative platform for emerging large-scale computing paradigms. Among these, data and web technologies are two most prominent paradigms, in a variety of forms such as data centers, cloud computing, mobile cloud, and mobile web services. These technologies altogether create a digital ecosystem whose corner stone is the data cycle, from capturing to processing, analysis, and visualization. The investigation of various research and development issues in this digital ecosystem is boosted by the ever-increasing needs of real-life applications, which are based on storing and processing large amounts of data. Researchers, software developers, practitioners, and students interested in the field of data and web technologies will find this book useful and a reference for their activity.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53555-0
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    Intelligent Systems and Applications : Proceedings of the 2023 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) Volume 4 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031477188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 905 p. 448 illus., 340 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 825
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: The book is a unique collection of studies involving intelligent systems and applications of artificial intelligence in the real world to provide solutions to most vexing problems. IntelliSys received an overwhelming 605 papers which were put under strict double-blind peer-review for their novelty, originality and exhaustive research. Finally, 227 papers were sieved and chosen to be published in the proceedings. This book is a valuable collection of all the latest research in the field of artificial intelligence and smart systems. It provides a ready-made resource to all the readers keen on gaining information regarding the latest trends in intelligent systems. It also renders a sneak peek into the future world governed by artificial intelligence.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47718-8
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    Information Systems and Technologies : WorldCIST 2023, Volume 1 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031456428
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 601 p. 220 illus., 156 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 799
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Engineering ; Application software.
    Abstract: Physarum-Inspired Enterprise Network Redesign -- Improving LoRaWAN RSSI-based Localization in Harsh Environments: The Harbor Use Case -- Impact of traffic sampling on LRD estimation -- Features Extraction and Structure Similarities Measurement of Complex Networks -- Technology use by Africa smallholder farmers and the significant mediating factors -- Balancing Plug-in for Stream-based Classification -- Explainable Classification of Wiki Streams -- Reconstruction of meteorological records with PCA-based Analog Ensembles methods.-Analysis of the characteristics of different peer-to-peer risky loans -- Physics-Informed Autoencoders with Intrinsic Differential Equations for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Processes.
    Abstract: This book is composed of a selection of articles from the 11st World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, held between 4 and 5 of April 2023, at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, in Pisa, Italy. WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences, and challenges of modern Information Systems and Technologies research, together with their technological development and applications. The main and distinctive topics covered are: A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications, and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility, and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers, and Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; and N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45642-8
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    Voices of the Disenfranchized : Knowledge Production by Kurdish-Yezidi Refugees from Below (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031468094
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 275 p. 8 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Mobility & Politics
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Human rights. ; Migrationspolitik ; Asylpolitik ; Internationale Migration ; Kurden ; Asylbewerber ; Zuwanderer ; Vertreibung ; Soziale Situation ; Kurdistan ; Europa
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Homeland Conditions: “Speaking Kurdish was Equal to a Crime." -- Chapter 3: Escape: "I had seen the deaths of my children with my own eyes.” -- Chapter 4: Asylum Processes and Challenges: “We neither die nor live but receive some breath.” -- Chapter 5: Towards Integration: "We cannot achieve integration without struggle.” -- Chapter 6: Self-Governance from below: “Self-help Services are Necessary to Mitigate our Suffering -- Chapter 7: Exile: Exile: “I have not dreamed of being here since I still live there” -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: Over a million Kurdish-Yezidi refugees are dispersed across European cities and towns. However, they are neither recognized as a distinct community of stateless immigrants nor as a distinct European ethnic or religious minority. They are frequently utilized as data sources without having a voice to address their challenges. This oral testimony project, moving beyond, but contributing to, conventional academic research, provides these communities with a space to tackle multiple questions in their own languages and with their own voices. The book seeks to answer what drives their departures from their home countries, how they escape, what shapes their lives in receiving cities, and finally, how homeland affairs influence their lives in new environments. By addressing all these themes, this book presents refugee-centric knowledge by and with refugees as objects and subjects of their narratives and transcends neoliberal humanitarian, state-centric, and colonial hegemonic epistemes that limit refugees' epistemic capabilities and viewpoints. Veysi Dag is a research fellow of the Minerva Foundation at the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a research associate at SOAS, University of London. His research interests focus on studies of migration and diaspora, governance, social movements and transnationalism, comparative politics with a focus on refugee and migration policies in Europe, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and regional policy analysis with a focus on Middle Eastern politics and the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.
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    Problem-solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management : Theory and Practice (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031432309
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 454 p. 81 illus., 40 illus. in color.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kinder, Tony Problem-solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management
    Keywords: Public administration. ; Knowledge management. ; Political science. ; Technological innovations. ; Learning frameworks ; Public services providers ; Policy-making ; Service models ; Artificial intelligence ; Technology ; Digitalisation ; E-technology ; E-services ; Sustainability ; Inequality ; Climate ; Public goods ; Service users ; Education ; Health ; Security ; Communal living ; E-commerce ; E-democracy
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Problem-solving and Public Services -- Chapter 3. Public Value, Values, and Public Services -- Chapter 4. E-public Services -- Chapter 5. Local Public Sector Innovation -- Chapter 6. Organising in Self-organising Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Learners, Teachers and Leaders -- Chapter 8. Entrepreneurial Activity -- Chapter 9. Knowledge Flows and Services Improvements -- Chapter 10. Governances and Sustainability -- Chapter 11. Inequality, Climate and Dialectical Problemsolving -- Chapter 12. Conclusions.
    Abstract: In this textbook readers will acquire knowledge of problem-solving and learning to enhance both efficiency and the experience of service users in rapidly changing service environments, that can create new service models. Emphasizing that, above all else, individuals are at the centre of services, the book goes deeply into the nature of public services and their logic-of-practice. By applying learning and problem-solving approaches, the reader gains practical capabilities in addition to an appreciation of the latest research literature. Following a multidisciplinary, international approach, the book suggests a new typology of problem-framing and presents many examples of how new service solutions can be created in any public service context. The book offers a conceptual toolkit to understand and analyse dynamically changing services and the application of new technologies. Topics covered include pressing issues surrounding public services, such as e-technology, digitalisation, e-services, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurialism, sustainability, climate, inequality, developing economies, and smart cities. Chapters follow a similar structure: issue, problems, what we know, learning framework, worked example, theory and practice conclusions, as well as teacher and learner notes. Addressing advanced undergraduate and graduate students of public administration, public management, political science, sociology, computer science, and information systems, the book will also be a valuable resource for practitioners, i.e. experts and managers in public organizations, professionals in organizations working at the business and public sectors, consultants, and IT suppliers.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43230-9
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    Remote Investment Transactions in the Digital Age : Perception, Techniques, Law Regulation (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031515361
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVIII, 365 p. 29 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Intelligent Systems Reference Library 250
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Financial engineering. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Remote transactions in the investment segment of the Internet: an ecosystem approach to the research -- Chapter 1. Platform ecosystems in the investment segment of the Internet: institutional and organizational aspects -- Chapter 2. Modern information space as a set of electronic web platforms for the turnover of the investment objects -- Chapter 3. Remote investment transactions in the digital space: the essence and types -- Chapter 4. Digital financial assets as the objects for remote digital investment transactions: evolution and worldwide experience. Chapter 5. Central bank digital currencies (CBDC): current situation and development prospects in the global economy.
    Abstract: The book contains the results of the best research developments obtained during the implementation of major scientific events organized and carried out with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation and the President of the Russian Federation. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time at the level of Russian and international interdisciplinary social and humanitarian sciences, primarily economic and legal, firstly, philosophical concepts and regulatory legal approaches to the regulation of remote investment transactions have been studied; secondly, a set of economic and legal conditions and means of harmonizing and observing the mutual interests of participants in remote investment transactions has been developed and proposed in order to prevent and minimize potential conflicts between the parties; thirdly, the current state and international regulation of investment transactions concluded and executed on Internet platforms was critically assessed; fourthly, a system of guarantees and protection of the rights of participants in remote investment transactions is proposed, including special contractual structures and an economic and legal model for the proper fulfillment of obligations. Measures are substantiated to expand and increase the intensity of the national investment turnover based on the improvement of the current legislation regulating investments through remote digital technologies in the Internet space, which provided a solution to the world scientific problem of great socioeconomic and economic importance. The book is designed for a wide target audience—scientists of different generations, different disciplinary and industry affiliations. Among them are young researchers, as well as scientists who have received recognition from the world scientific community, studying the socioeconomic, managerial, and legal consequences of the emergence and spread of digital technologies in the field of investment. Readers can be all individuals and legal entities interested in the development of digital technologies in the field of investment.
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    The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 400 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Philosophy, American. ; Pragmatism. ; Philosophy
    Abstract: 1. Introduction; Martin Coleman and Glenn Tiller -- I. Scepticism and Animal Faith -- 2. Santayana: Philosopher for the Twenty-First Century; Herman J. Saatkamp Jr -- 3. The Last Sceptic: Santayana, Descartes, and the External World; Douglas McDermid -- 4. Laying Siege to the Truth: Santayana’s Discourse on Method; Diana B. Heney -- 5. Scepticism, Anti-scepticism, and Santayana’s Singularity; Daniel Pinkas -- 6. Knowledge as a Leap of Faith; Jessica Wahman -- 7. Animal Faith and Its Object; John J. Stuhr -- 8. Natural Knowledge and Transcendental Criticism in Scepticism and Animal Faith; Paul Forster -- 9. Santayana’s Naturalism at the Junction of Epistemology and Ontology; Ángel M. Faerna -- 10. Reconstruction from Ultimate Scepticism; Angus Kerr-Lawson -- II. Ontology and Spirit -- 11. The Centrality of the Imagination in Scepticism and Animal Faith; Richard Marc Rubin -- 12. Spiritual Exercises and Animal Faith; Martin A. Coleman -- 13. The Cries of Spirit: Santayana in Dialogue with Andrey Platonov; Matthew Caleb Flamm -- 14. Fumbling Towards the Animal in “Animal Faith”; Charles Padrón -- 15. A Tension at the Center of Santayana’s Philosophy; Michael Hodges -- 16. Truth and Ontology; Glenn Tiller -- III. Philosophical Relations -- 17. On Gnats and Barnacles, or Some Similarities between Santayana’s Idea of Change and Ancient Greek Thought; Andrés Tutor de Ureta -- 18. The Ideal of a Philosophic Redemption: Baruch Spinoza’s Place in Western Philosophy and in Santayana’s Thought; Lydia Amir -- 19. G. Santayana (Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923) and E. Husserl (Cartesianische Meditationen, 1929), Readers of R. Descartes; Daniel Moreno -- 20. Hermes as an Interpreter and the Guide to Hades: Re-reading “The Letter of Lord Chandos” with Reference to Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith; Katarzyna Kremplewska -- 21. The Conservative Disposition in Santayana’s Philosophy; Michael Brodrick.
    Abstract: The first of its kind, this project is a collection of critical and interpretive essays on George Santayana’s seminal work in American philosophy, Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923), 100 years after its first edition. The reader will be guided through the intricacies of Scepticism and Animal Faith by expert scholars. This book is a companion to Scepticism and Animal Faith for both first-time readers and readers intimately familiar with this work. Martin Coleman is Director and Editor of the Santayana Edition. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. Glenn Tiller is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
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    Religion and Social Criticism : Tradition, Method, and Values (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 280 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Abstract: 1. On Religious Ethics and Social Criticism -- Part I. Humanism, Human Dignity, and Social Criticism -- 2. Which Criticism and Whose Humanism? -- 3. Christian Humanism on the Individual and Human Dignity -- 4. Social Criticism & Islamic Ethics After 9/11: How Muslim Anthropologies Matter -- Part II. Religious Ethics, Practical Ethics, and Social Criticism -- 5. Inhuman Weapons: Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and the Moral Salience of Culture to Their Use in Central Asia -- 6. Prophetic Social Criticism, Solidarity, and Just War -- 7. Moral Distress and the Intrapsychic Hazards of Medical Practice -- 8. Recognition on Demand: A Study of Religion in Conscience Protection Clauses -- 9. The Grieving Storyteller: Grief Narratives as a Source of Moral Reflection -- Part III. Religious Ethics, Methods, and Social Criticism -- 10. Political Hostility and Respect for Human Dignity -- 11. Normativity and Solidarity.
    Abstract: “This volume tackles important questions about the role of social criticism in religious studies. It is engaging and illuminating, and I enthusiastically recommend it.” —James F. Childress, University Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia, USA “This book analyzes, criticizes, and develops the concept of social criticism that contributes to the cultural knowledge of humanity, focusing on religious belief and practice in the study of history, thought, and culture. In short, this book makes a very significant contribution.” —Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor Emeritus of Human Values, Southern Methodist University, USA “What is the role of social criticism—the intellectual work of assessing the customs, practices, and policies that shape the moral quality of society—in religious ethics? This volume not only exemplifies the variety and richness of contemporary work in the field; it constitutes an extended argument for the value of social criticism as a core value and method in religious ethics.” —Maria Antonaccio, Presidential Professor of Religious Studies, Bucknell University, USA This volume brings together emerging and established religious ethicists to investigate how those in the field carry forward the practice and tradition of social criticism and, at the same time, how social criticism informs the scholarly values of their field. Contributors reflect on the nature of the moral subject and the ethical weight of human dignity and consider the limits and possibilities of religious humanism in orienting the work of social criticism. They compare religious sources and forms of research in religious ethics to secular sources and the tradition of liberal social criticism. And they offer proposals for how religious ethics can help humanists navigate our complex and multicultural moral landscape and what this field reveals about the ultimate ends of humanistic scholarship. Bharat Ranganathan is the Brooks Assistant Professor of Social Justice and Religion at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches religious ethics. He is the co-editor of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Caroline Anglim is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Professionalism at the Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, GA. She teaches professional ethics and topics in the medical humanities.
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    Handbook of Applied Journalism : Theory and Practice (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031487392
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 629 p. 63 illus., 56 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Journalism. ; Mass media ; Comparative government. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Journalism is Software -- Chapter 3. News Recommendation and Information Cocoons: the Impact of Algorithms on News Consumption -- Chapter 4. Environmental Issues Raised in the Forum Pages of a Newspaper in Singapore -- Chapter 5. Towards an Inclusive Journalism: a Review of Ethical Norms and Accountability Systems -- Chapter 6. On the Framing of the Zika Virus Outbreak in Singapore by a Newspaper -- Chapter 7. Journalism in Practice Studies: a Systematic Review -- Chapter 8. A Toolkit for Journalists for More Informed Reporting of Stories About Muslims and Islam -- Chapter 9. Emotional Education: Incorporating Emotional Labor Instruction Into Journalism Training -- Chapter 10. Some Problems of Bridge-building -- Chapter 11. Entrepreneurialism in Digital Journalism Education: the Niche Model -- Chapter 12. Sámi Journalism in the Context of the Sámi Mediascape: Current Trends and Research Agendas -- Chapter 13. Transnational Networks in Global Collaborative Journalism: Mapping Opportunities and Challenges in Africa -- Chapter 14. Media and Democracy: Can the News Media Rightfully Claim Its Role as the Fourth Estate in Zimbabwe Politics? -- Chapter 15. Psychological Aid and Training for Journalists Who Face Continued Emotionally Demanding Environments: the Case of Venezuelan Journalists -- Chapter 16. Reclaiming the Social Legitimacy of Journalism in Polarised Environments: Lessons From Chile and Bolivia -- Chapter 17. Digital Shift Towards What? Implications of Digital Transformation for Professional Journalism Practice in Morocco -- Chapter 18. Brazilian Journalists’ New Media Arrangements: Journalism Made in the Periphery -- Chapter 19. The Pros and Cons of Online Journalism Practice in Egypt -- Chapter 20. Australian Journalist Practice and News Reporting in Relation to First Nations -- Chapter 21. Press Coverage of Yellow Vest Protests in France: a Critical Approach -- Chapter 22. Vietnamese Online Journalism: Vnexpress and Vietnamplus’ Responses to the Big Data and AI Boom -- Chapter 23. Looking for Constructive Journalism Principles in Arab Journalism Codes of Ethics: a Study on UAE, KSA, and Qatar -- Chapter 24. Exploring Environmental Journalism Practices in Singapore: the Case of a National Newspaper -- Chapter 25. Migrating From the Advocacy of Personality Cult to a Vibrant Democratic Landscape: Four Decades of Iraqi Journalism Practice -- Chapter 26. Pivoting on Their Writerly Skills: How Australian Freelance Journalists Fared During the Pandemic -- Chapter 27. Beyond the Bias: the Hegemony of Corporatizing Journalism -- Chapter 28. Ethical Blindness in Journalism -- Chapter 29. Journalists and Editors in an Online Environment: the Case of Croatia -- Chapter 30. Cold War or Inner Unity? How a New Generation of Journalists Challenge Persistent Bias in Reporting East Germany in Die Zeit -- Chapter 31. Cultural Journalism: the Theatre Review -- Chapter 32. We Are the New(S)!: Reporting Experiences of Young Journalists in Albania -- Chapter 33. Fixers as Co-creators of Foreign Reporting: Focus on Hungary -- Chapter 34. “No One is Going to Silence Me”: a Comparison of the Conditions for Press Freedom and Independent Journalism as a Prerequisite for Democracy in the United States, Sweden, and Egypt.
    Abstract: This authoritative handbook looks at the entire news cycle and provides a bridge between the theoretical and academic study of journalism and its actual contemporary practice. The book's main merit is that it brings theory and practice together, with contributors discussing these issues from different perspectives in a way that scholars, students, and practitioners can find useful in the study of journalism. The handbook is also unique as it undertakes an international scope across regions and cultures, both from the West and the Global South, while providing an overview which balances the (over-) emphasis on content in most academic approaches to journalism. The book is divided into four major parts: (1) Conceptual foundations, (2) Interlink between journalism as scholarship and journalism as practice, (3) Regions and cultures, and (4) The practitioner world. The first two sections lay down the foundation for section (3) which provides an overview of journalism practice in different regions and cultures. Section (4) includes contributions by practitioners in which they attempt to respond to some of the issues raised in preceding sections. This handbook will appeal to academics, practitioners, and professionals alike, who are interested in a better understanding of the academic study of journalism and its actual contemporary practice.
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    International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD'2023) : Advanced Intelligent Systems on Energy, Environment and Agriculture, Volume 1 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031543180
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 428 p. 165 illus., 139 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 930
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Economic development. ; Environmental sciences ; Agriculture.
    Abstract: This book is a comprehensive compilation of groundbreaking insights stemming from the esteemed International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD'2023), hosted at Cadi Ayyad University Morocco. Focused on the crucial themes of energy, environment, agriculture, and industry, this book captures the essence of transformative discussions and cutting-edge research that unfolded during the conference. Within these pages, readers are invited to explore the intricate world of intelligent systems, where innovation converges to tackle the key challenges of sustainability. The book immerses its audience in a wealth of knowledge that deeply represents the latest advancements shaping the future landscape. Diverse topics are intricately woven into the fabric of this discourse, covering AI-driven solutions designed for energy optimization, environmental sustainability, precision agriculture, and intelligent industry applications. Each contribution serves as a testament to the collaborative efforts of researchers, practitioners, and experts who gathered to drive innovation at the intersection of intelligent systems and sustainable development. Crafted as an invaluable resource, 'Advancements in Intelligent Systems: AI2SD'2023 Proceedings‘ caters to a diverse readership eager to delve into the forefront of trends and developments emerging from the crossroads of advanced intelligent systems in energy, environment, agriculture, and industry. Whether you're a researcher, practitioner, or enthusiast, unlock the transformative potential inherent in these innovative domains.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54318-0
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    Constraints and Opportunities in Shaping the Future: New Approaches to Economics and Policy Making : ESPERA 2022, Bucharest, Romania, November 24-25, 2022 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031479250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 536 p. 140 illus., 128 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
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    Keywords: Economic policy. ; Economic development. ; International economic integration. ; Globalization. ; Global World Post-Crisis ; Resource Economics ; Agricultural and Rural Development ; Green transition ; Conference Proceedings ; Sovereign debt ; De-globalization ; Smart Development ; Digitization ; European Integration ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This book explores multifaceted dimensions of economic crisis management including strategies and trends post-crisis. It examines the constraints and opportunities shaping the future of economics, social science and policy making, providing various economic models and paradigms. Featuring the best papers presented at the 2022 International Conference of Economic Scientific Research - Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches (ESPERA), this book explores topics of highest interest such as energy crisis, inflation, fiscal and monetary policy, food security, safety and sustainability, the future of work, global financial systems, sovereign debt sustainability, digital currencies, supply chain disruptions, and cybersecurity, among others. Through the discussion of these topics, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice in economic crisis management and it is useful for scholars, researchers, academics, and policymakers.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47925-0
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    Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam : The World of Women-Centric Islam (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031517495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 319 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
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    Keywords: Islam ; Islam ; Religion and sociology. ; Sex. ; Anthropology of religion.
    Abstract: Part I South and Southeast Asia -- Matrifocal, Matrilineal, or Matriarchal? Cultural Resilience and Vulnerability Among the Matrilineal and Muslim Minangkabau in Indonesia -- Adat Perpatih in Malaysia: Nature, History, Practice, and Contemporary Issues -- Cultural and Social Integrations in Matrilineal, Matriarchal, Matrifocal Muslim Communities of South India -- Part II Northeast Asia -- Affective Matrivocality and Women’s Voices: A History of Muslim Women Writers in China -- Matriarchal Family Structure in Korea’s Jeju Island and its Implications for the Muslim Community in Korea -- The Maternal Initiative Role in the Japanese Muslim Community: Japanese Muslim Wives as Mediators Between Muslim Immigrants and Japanese Society -- Part III Africa -- Muslim Family Under Portuguese Rule: Sharı ̄ʿa and Matrilineal Custom in Colonial Coastal Northern Mozambique (ca. 1900–1974) -- Asante Nkramo and Fantse Nkramo: Unravelling the Paradox of Islam and Matriliny in Ghana -- Part IV Andalusia and Americas -- The Tuareg, from Arabia to Americas -- The Origins of Andalusian Muslim Matrilineal Systems.
    Abstract: Around the world, Islamic cultures have developed distinctive matrilineal, matrifocal, matrilocal, or matriarchal natures as a result of how they have been practised by integrated and indigenised Muslim communities. In matrilineal descent systems, in contrast to the more common mosaic of patrilineal patterns, children belong to the mother’s ancestry group. Matrilineal Muslims therefore follow a social system in which people are identified with their mother's lineage, and the inheritance of property as well as succession are transferred through the matriline. This volume focuses on matrilineal, matrifocal and matriarchal Muslims and their unique folk natures, integrated social structures, adopted legal systems, and so on. It provides a unique perspective for understanding global Muslim communities that have succeeded in integrating the matrilineal tenets of local practices with religion, adhering to essential Islamic values in a way that makes traditional women-centred cultures acceptable to mainstream Islam. Abbas Panakkal, The School of History, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom. Nasr M Arif, Visiting Professor, University of St Andrews, UK and Professor of political science, University of Cairo, Egypt.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51749-5
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    Darwin’s Racism, Sexism, and Idolization : Their Tragic Societal and Scientific Repercussions (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031490552
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 433 p. 397 illus., 373 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Evolution (Biology). ; Social evolution. ; Religion and science. ; Anthropology.
    Abstract: 1. Science, society and Darwin’s idealization -- 2. Darwin’s society and science -- 3. Racism and its societal repercussions -- 4. Misogyny and its damaging legacy -- 5. Bringing reality to society and science.
    Abstract: In this book Diogo, a renowned biologist and anthropologist, addresses a question that is critical for the understanding of science, beliefs, idolization, systemic racism and sexism, and our societies in general: why has Darwin been idolized in such a unique way, particularly by Western scholars? Diogo shows that many evolutionary 'facts' stated in Darwin's works, particularly about human evolution, are inaccurate constructions based on Victorian biases and stereotypes: non-Europeans are inferior, women have a lower intelligence than men, Victorian society was the pinnacle of evolution, and so on. Importantly, such inaccurate biased statements about our evolution are markedly in contrast with the mostly accurate, and often brilliant, ideas put forward by Darwin concerning non-human organisms. Importantly, it was precisely the combination of such brilliant ideas, the use of simplistic and sometimes exaggerated metaphors that were catchy and easily absorbed by the general public, and Darwin's intellectual conservatism and biased ideas about women and non-European peoples that led to Darwin's idolization, particularly by Western scientists, as well as to the darkest societal repercussions of his works. By portraying such biased ideas as “evolutionary facts”, Darwin provided easy ammunition for populist political leaders, authoritarians, colonialists, and white supremacists to 'scientifically' defend social hierarchies, sexism, racism, discrimination, oppression, and segregation. A typical argument used to defend Darwin from portraying such erroneous sexist and racist ideas as “facts” is that ‘back then’ everybody was racist and sexist. Diogo deconstructs this argument by providing enthralling case studies and travel descriptions by authors such as Wallace and Humboldt, who often praised the indigenous peoples that repulsed - and criticized the social hierarchies and Western imperialism that marveled - Darwin. The aim of this book is therefore not to 'cancel' Darwin or argue that he was always wrong: not at all, in general he was an extraordinary biologist, but was a much less successful anthropologist due in great part to his Victorian biases. Instead, the book discusses Darwin's writings, ideas, and their repercussions in a broader way, without taboos, omissions, idolization or demonization in order to show Darwin, and science in general, in all their complexity. This is because, if we fail to acknowledge and emphasize the biases, prejudices, inaccuracies, and abuses of our past, and merely continue to blindly idealize it, our kids will be condemned to undertake or suffer similar societal abuses in the future.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49055-2
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    Police Early Intervention Systems : Integrating Officer Performance, Integrity, and Welfare (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031441622
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IV, 125 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Series in Policing
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    Keywords: Criminology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Evolution of Early Intervention Systems: Innovation and Issues -- Chapter 2. Practice Surveys -- Chapter 3. Literature Reviews, Guides and Critiques -- Chapter 4. Early Case Studies -- Chapter 5. Victoria (Australia) -- Chapter 6. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department -- Chapter 7. Tasmania -- Chapter 8. Portland (Oregon) -- Chapter 9. New Zealand -- Chapter 10. Designing a Best Practice Early Intervention System.
    Abstract: This book documents the development of early intervention systems (EISs) internationally, and provides evidence for and against their effectiveness as a key tool to reduce police misconduct and improve the physical and psychological health of officers. Featuring practical illustrations to support textual examples, this volume offers valuable best practices for police departments and policing students.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44162-2
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    Dynamics of the Ukraine War : Diplomatic Challenges and Geopolitical Uncertainties (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031524448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 120 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Europe ; America
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Russo-ukraine War: a Discursive Introduction -- Chapter 2. Uncertainties of the War: Reframing the Discourse -- Chapter 3. Political Complexities and Problematics of the Russo-ukrainian War -- Chapter 4. A Discontent With the Russo-ukraine War -- Chapter 5. The Sanctions Wars: Impacts and Consequences -- Chapter 6. The Propaganda War and the Fourth Estate -- Chapter 7. Zeitenwende: Nato Renaissance and a New World Order -- Chapter 8. Financing the War and Rebuilding Ukraine -- Chapter 9. Frozen Solutions, Diplomatic Challenges and Geopolitical Uncertainties.
    Abstract: This book offers a contemporary, cutting-edge, and advanced critical analysis of the first twenty months of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Following a realist approach and with a focus on political discord, economic sanctions, and media limitations, the book sheds light onto the deadlock between the conflicting parties. It dissects the diplomatic endeavors and missteps, varying political perspectives, Western support strategies, and the intricate global dynamics that triggered this existential crisis. The critical assessment of political antecedents, including the Budapest Memorandum, the Bucharest Summit Declaration, and the Minsk Agreements 1 and 2, uncovers hidden political motives aimed at setting the stage for a proxy war. Additionally, the book scrutinizes the financial dimensions of the conflict, strategies for post-conflict reconstruction, and the emerging Zeitenwende phenomenon reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Global North. This book's insights suggest a potential shift towards a new multipolar global order, representing a significant realignment in the distribution of geopolitical and geo-economic influence. A must-read for scholars and academics seeking a profound understanding of this pivotal conflict and its far-reaching implications.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52444-8
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    Necropolitics, Habitus, And The Kashmiri Resistance: We Are Here Still (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031523670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 207 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Political Sociology
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Political science. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Formation Of The Indian State And Its Post-Colonial Condition: Field, Capital And Doxa -- Chapter 3: We Are Still Here: The Habitus That Resigns And That Challenges Necropolitics -- Chapter 4: Final Considerations: Solidarity, Resistance And Defeat.
    Abstract: This book engages the concept of necropolitics to present a vision of how to understand the physical body as a space of power and resistance to social order, in the context of the Kashmir resistance. The author sheds new light on the relations between India and Pakistan, with a focus on tensions over the Kashmir region, in order to better understand the emergence and stabilization of the narrative that criminalizes and thus justifies the population that rebels against state actions in the region. The research draws from archival and interview research and presents the reader with new insight into both conceptual and material dimensions of necropolitics. Vinícius Tavares de Oliveira is Assistant Professor in International Relations at PUC Minas campus Poços de Caldas.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52367-0
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    IGAD and Multilateral Security in the Horn of Africa : Through the Lens of the Somali Conflict (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031515484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 233 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Africa ; Security, International. ; International economic relations. ; Peace. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. IGAD Regional Agenda: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pan-Africanism and Regional Integration -- Chapter 3. IGAD and Regional Integration: Theories -- Chapter 4. Evolution and Transformation of IGAD -- Chapter 5. Historicising the Logic of Regional Integration in the IGAD Region -- Chapter 6. IGAD and Regional Conflicts -- Chapter 7. IGAD’s Role in Economic Integration -- Chapter 8. Regional Security and the Role of IGAD in Somalia -- Chapter 9. Toward Peace and Security of Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
    Abstract: This book delves into the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development's (IGAD) endeavors to enhance security and economic integration in the Horn of Africa. While aspiring to unite and stabilize the region, IGAD faces complex historical, strategic, and geographical challenges. Through a political economy approach, the book showcases IGAD’s strengths and weaknesses and employs neorealist and regional security complex theories to analyze the involvement of states and non-state actors in IGAD's security agenda, particularly in relation to Somalia. The study highlights opportunities and obstacles to sustainable regional integration, offering practical policy suggestions for curbing armed uprisings and inter-state disputes. It dissects the geopolitical dynamics involving international players like the United States and China, as well as regional powers such as Ethiopia, in IGAD's pursuit of security and economic progress. Valuable for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders invested in the Horn's security and development, the book bridges gaps in the literature, shedding light on African political development, regional peace and security. Mohamed Farah Hersi is Head of Somaliland's oldest research think tank institution, the Academy for Peace and Development, Hargeisa. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Hargeisa in Somaliland, his Master of Laws degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and his PhD from the University of Peace in Costa Rica. He has 13 years of experience and expertise in the fields of research, technical consulting service, policy creation and analysis. Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained a PhD in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the co-editor of the IPATC's journal, “Pan-African Conversation: An International Journal”, and specializes in African political economy, resource governance, migration, conflict, and peace studies.
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    Integral and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control Systems and Games (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031452529
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 267 p. 43 illus., 41 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Advances in Industrial Control
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Engineering mathematics. ; Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Automotive engineering.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Background on Integral and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic System Feedback -- 3. Integral Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Regulation -- 4. Integral Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Tracking -- 5. Integral Reinforcement Learning for Nonlinear Tracker -- Integral Reinforcement Learning for H-infinity Control -- 6. Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Linear and Nonlinear Systems -- 7. Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Two-Player Zero-Sum Games -- 8. Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Multi-player Nonzero-sum Games.
    Abstract: Integral and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control Systems and Games develops its specific learning techniques, motivated by application to autonomous driving and microgrid systems, with breadth and depth: integral reinforcement learning (RL) achieves model-free control without system estimation compared with system identification methods and their inevitable estimation errors; novel inverse RL methods fill a gap that will help them to attract readers interested in finding data-driven model-free solutions for inverse optimization and optimal control, imitation learning and autonomous driving among other areas. Graduate students will find that this book offers a thorough introduction to integral and inverse RL for feedback control related to optimal regulation and tracking, disturbance rejection, and multiplayer and multiagent systems. For researchers, it provides a combination of theoretical analysis, rigorous algorithms, and a wide-ranging selection of examples. The book equips practitioners working in various domains – aircraft, robotics, power systems, and communication networks among them – with theoretical insights valuable in tackling the real-world challenges they face.
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    (Un)Civil Democracy : Political Incivility as a Communication Strategy (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031544057
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 102 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Communication in politics. ; Elections.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Politicians and the Attractions of Incivility -- Chapter 2: The Media Industry of Incivility -- Chapter 3: Citizens and the Seductive Power of Incivility -- Chapter 4: Incivility as a Tool for Social Change -- Chapter 5: Incivility and Democracy.
    Abstract: This book offers a systematization of the recourse to political incivility by different subjects and in different contexts. The authors argue that incivility has now become a strategic resource that can be used by various actors in the public arena to achieve specific goals. We are referring not only to traditional political subjects, but also to journalists, citizens, movements and protest groups, that is to a plurality of actors who, from different angles, contribute to the construction of the “political spectacle”. This resource can be activated according to circumstances and conveniences, whether their nature be political (to place an issue at the center of public debate or a new actor in the offer range), mediatic (to achieve an increase in visibility or viewership) or relational (to expand one’s visibility and centrality in social media). The book identifies common elements linking the different levels of use of incivility, which can be traced in uncivil forms of communication. These are their expressive power (memorable gestures and unequivocal messages, which are immediately recognizable and visible), their aggregation power (they build group identities, and consolidate allegiances and bonds) and their mobilization power (they galvanize people, and inspire them to participate and take action). Sara Bentivegna is Full Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Rossella Rega is Associate Professor at the University of Siena, Italy.
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    Artificial Intelligence of Things for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031534331
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 388 p. 105 illus., 92 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 192
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Environmental sciences ; Engineering
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Reconsidering a Sustainable Future through Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) in the Context of Circular Economy (Georgios Lampropoulos, Harjinder Rahanu, Elli Georgiadou, Dimitrios Siakas, and Kerstin Siakas) -- Chapter 2. The Digital Paradigm: Unraveling the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (Hanane Thamik, Juan David Figueroa Cabrera, and Jiang Wu) -- Chapter 3. The role of the Artificial Intelligence of Things in Energy Poverty alleviation (Ascensión López Vargas, Agapito Ledezma-Espino, and Araceli Sanchis-de-Miguel) -- Chapter 4. AIoT-Enabled Smart Grids: Advancing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Integration (Fadele Ayotunde Alaba, Usman Sani, Emmanuel Gbenga Dada, and Baydaa Hashim Mohammed) -- Chapter 5. Achieving SDGs using AI Techniques and Digital Twins for Nuclear Power Plants: A Review (Kousik Barik, Sanjay Misra, and Harald P-J Thunem) -- Chapter 6. Carbon and Decarbonization Disclosure: Role of Responsible Innovation in Adoption of Artificial Intelligence of Things towards SDGs (Assunta Di Vaio, Anum Zaffar, and Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente) -- Chapter 7. Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Fadele Ayotunde Alaba, Abayomi Jegede, Usman Sani, and Emmanuel Gbenga Dada) -- Chapter 8. AIoT-Enabled Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Crop Disease Management: Advancing SDGs through Graph Attention Neural Networks (Muhammad Bello Kusharki and Bilkisu Larai Muhammad-Bello) -- Chapter 9. Sustainable Healthcare 5.0: Integration of IoT and Blockchain Technology with Federated Learning Model for Securing Healthcare Data (Arudra Vamshikrishnaa, Dharavath Ramesha, Rahul Mishraa, and Nazeeruddin Mojammadb) -- Chapter 10. IoT-Enabled Machine Learning for Enhanced Diagnosis of Diabetes and Heart Disease in Resource-Limited Settings (John Abubakar, Aghedo Emmanuel Odianose, and Omolola Faith Ademola), etc.
    Abstract: This book covers various topics and trends regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in society, industry, and environment for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) suggested by the United Nations. Additionally, it discusses their advancements and fusion as well as the realization of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). The book aims to provide an overview and recent research into the fusion, integration, advancements, and impact of these technologies in the context of SDGs achievement. The topics include the applications of AI, IoT, big data, AI-based and IoT-based cloud computing, machine learning and deep learning techniques, and blockchain among others for achieving SDGs. It also presents findings and discussions on potential application domains, addresses open issues and challenges, offers solutions, and provides suggestions for future research for achieving SDGs. The chapters are clustered, according to particular SDGs or areas of focus, into: i) the realization of AIoT for SDGs, ii) the role of AIoT in achieving society and wellbeing-related SDGs, iii) the fulfillment of industrial sectors, infrastructure, and economy-related SDGs through AIoT, and iv) the use of AIoT to aid natural resources and environment-related SDGs. The book assists researchers, practitioners, professionals, and academicians of various scientific fields in exploring and better understanding these state-of-the-art technologies, their advancements, impact, future potentials and benefits, and their role in successfully achieving SDGs. The book: · Offers an in-depth overview of AIoT for achieving SDGs. · Presents the fusion of AI and IoT for bringing a significant change in everyday life and fulfilling SDGs. · Highlights innovative solutions and results of AIoT integration in several domains for achieving SDGs. · Showcases the influence of AIoT on promoting and improving sustainability in the context of SDGs. · Discusses the issues, benefits, solutions, and impact of AIoT in society, industry, and environment for achieving SDGs.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53433-1
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    Digital Diplomacy in the OSCE Region : From Theory to Practice (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031509667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 168 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Diplomacy. ; International relations. ; International organization. ; Globalization. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to Digital Diplomacy in the OSCE Region -- Chapter 2. Digital Diplomacy in Azerbaijan: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities -- Chapter 3. Balkan Style Digital Diplomacy -- Chapter 4. Digitalisation in Central Asia: Progress and Potential -- Chapter 5. German Digital Diplomacy -- Chapter 6. A New Frontier in Diplomacy: Digital Diplomacy Implementations in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 7. Digital Diplomacy in Spain: A Steep Learning Curve -- Chapter 8. Türkiye's Digital Diplomacy Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 9. UK Digital Diplomacy -- Chapter 10. The Impact of Twitter on Digital Diplomacy in the Context of International Media -- Chapter 11. The Impact of Digital Diplomacy on Security: the Case of the Russia-ukraine War -- Chapter 12. Bringing Diplomacy to the Digital Age -- Chapter 13. Essential Attributes Guiding the Danish Practice of Digital Diplomacy on Global Affairs -- Chapter 14. Diplomacy and Challenges in the Digital Age: the Italian Case Study.-Chapter 15. Data-informed Diplomacy: Adapting to the Digital Age in International Relations and Implementation in the OSCE Region.
    Abstract: This edited volume examines the practices and applications of digital diplomacy in the OSCE Region. As a security organization, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) prioritizes its member states’ cyber security and cyberspace activities. The book examines two key areas where digital diplomacy challenges traditional diplomatic practices of the OSCE member States: institutional adaptation and policy innovation in the OSCE Region. It (1) investigates how capable and motivated foreign ministries are at the institutional level to shift to digital diplomacy, and (2) explores how digital diplomacy affects the fundamental diplomatic tasks of representation, communication, and relationship management at the policy level. Technological advances in IT and the Internet's widespread introduction in the wake of the 2000s provided new territories to conquer for states to pursue their interests. Moreover, technological developments and media attention enhanced information flow and communication through new platforms like online encyclopedias (i.e., Wikipedia), video-sharing sites (i.e., YouTube), and social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). Because of these transformations, public opinion became influential in diplomacy, and a greater need to include foreign publics as part of foreign policy goals emerged. Introducing case studies from several OSCE countries, presented by an international group of authors, this book provides a timely response to current affairs and policy debates by providing pluralistic perspectives from different countries and disciplines, such as international relations, political science, international law, and political economy). It will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of the aforementioned disciplines, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of digital democracy and digital diplomacy in the OSCE region.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50966-7
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    Human-Friendly Robotics 2023 : HFR: 16th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031550003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 242 p. 108 illus., 102 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics 29
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: A Concise Overview of Safety Aspects in Human-Robot Interaction -- A Hybrid Control Approach for a Pneumatic-actuated Soft Robot -- BICEP: a Bio-Inspired Compliant Elbow Prosthesis -- Development of a Patient Behaviour Model for an Adaptive Medical Robot -- Emotion-Aware Control Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration.
    Abstract: Comprising sixteen independent chapters, this book covers recent advancements and emerging pathways within human-friendly robotics on physical and cognitive levels. Each chapter presents a novel work presented at HFR 2023 by researchers from various robotic domains, where new theories, methodologies, technologies, challenges, and empirical and experimental studies are discussed. The multidisciplinary nature of the authors enriches the compilation with varied viewpoints, making it an excellent resource for academics, researchers, and industry professionals to get acquainted with the state of the art on human-robot interaction.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55000-3
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    Procedures of Resistance : Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031493867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 373 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction (Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić, Andrea Milanko, and Ivana Perica) -- PART I: SYNECDOCHIC PROCEDURES -- 2: Analytical vs Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia (Aage A. Hansen-Löve) -- 3: The Leopard in the Temple: Svetozar Petrović and the Zagreb School (Predrag Brebanović) -- 4: An Analysis of Cultural Icons: A Synecdochic Procedure (Dagmar Burkhart) -- 5: The Points of No Return: The Avant-Garde and the Institutional Crisis (Marina Protrka Štimec) -- PART II: PROCEDURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY -- 6: Inter-esse: Narrative, Theory, and the Stakes of Literature (Tomislav Brlek) -- 7: Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground (Stijn Vervaet) -- 8: The Rhetoric of the Unsayable (Renate Lachmann) -- 9: Reading the Cultural Trauma: Újvidék Raid (Nevena Daković) -- PART III: PROCEDURES OF MATERIALISM 172 -- 10: The Economies of Theory and Resistance (Stipe Grgas) -- 11: Procedures of Synthesis: Mannheim’s and Lukács’s Third Ways (Ivana Perica) -- 12: On the Heuristic Validity of Aesthetics: Economy, Media and Power in Arkadij and Boris Strugatskijs’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) (Jurij Murašov) -- 13: Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović (Davor Beganović) -- PART IV: MASTERING PROCEDURE -- 14: Is Literary Theory Possible? Interpreting Crisis, Mastering Procedures (Zrinka Božić) -- 15: Literature’s Theories (Svend Erik Larsen) -- 16: Literary Theory and the Return of the Lyric (Andrea Milanko) -- PART V: RESISTING PROCEDURES -- 17: On Halt! (Vivian Liska) -- 18: Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c (Nenad Ivić) -- 19: The Stereoscopic Effects of Theory: Procedures of Contingency or Contingencies of Procedure? Notes on the Relationship Between Speculative Realism and Aleatory Materialism (Aleksandar Mijatović).
    Abstract: This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historically constituted as it is “always becoming something else” as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of theory relies on theory’s procedural nature. In order to assess theory’s procedural challenge to the fundamental notions that all the disciplines within an episteme have brought to the fore, it addresses these questions: What are the procedures theory has relied on? Are they a secret to its resistance, or is resistance its primary procedure? And if so, a resistance to what? Secondly, if resistance were theory’s principal vehicle, at which point does resistance, conceptualized only procedurally (as resisting something, questioning anything, criticizing whatever), display hallmarks of a disciplinary closure that must call for new resistances, and perhaps for a fundamentally another kind? The book turns to what theory does in order to avoid a partial answer to what theory is. Davor Beganović is Lecturer in the Slavic Department of the University of Tübingen and a Research Fellow at the Slavic Department of the University of Münster, Germany. He is the author of Pripovijedanje bez kraja: "Hrvatska pripovjedačka Bosna" od Ive Andrića do Nebojše Lujanovića (2022). Zrinka Božić is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics (2022). Andrea Milanko is an Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Pripovjedna proza Slobodana Novaka (forthcoming). Ivana Perica is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany, and author of Die privat-öffentliche Achse des Politischen: Das Unvernehmen zwischen Hannah Arendt und Jacques Rancière (2016).
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49386-7
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    The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children’s Texts (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031520341
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVIII, 194 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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    Keywords: Children's literature. ; Interpretation, Literary. ; People with disabilities
    Abstract: Introduction: Worlds of Difference -- Chapter 1 -Goblin-ology: Eugenics and hysterisation in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872) -- Chapter 2 -"Lonely, tender, passionate heart": Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik's The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak (1875) -- Chapter 3 -Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism and Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954) -- Chapter 4 -On the Fringes: John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self -- Chapter 5 -"A Perversion of Nature? How Exciting!": Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), the Freak, the Monster and the Limits of Inclusion -- Chapter 6 -"Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair": Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp's Waterbound (1995) -- Chapter 7 -"This Magic Keeps Me Alive, but it's Making Me Crazy!": Amputation, Madness and Control in Adventure Time (2009-2018) -- Chapter 8 -"Loss is Loss is Loss": Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott's Pure (2012).
    Abstract: This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people. By focusing on dystopian texts, which the author argues act as sites for challenging or reinforcing dominant belief systems and ways of being, this study explores the potential of literature, film and television to act as a catalyst of change in the representation of disability. In addition, this work discusses the texts and technologies that continue to perpetuate questionable and often competing discourses on the subject.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52034-1
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    Advances in Information and Communication : Proceedings of the 2024 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), Volume 1 (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031539602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 724 p. 298 illus., 233 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 919
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Telecommunication.
    Abstract: Using ChatGPT-4 to Grade Open Question Exams -- Usable Security: Cultural Impacts on Graphical Passwords Usability -- Eye Disease Prediction using Ensemble Learning and Attention on OCT Scans -- Complementing Robotic Process Automation with Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT), Case of Robocorp -- Architectural Scalability of Conversational Chatbot: The Case of ChatGPT -- Hybrid Approach Involving Genetic Algorithm and Hill Climbing to Resolve the Timetable Scheduling for a University -- Chatbots: An Overview of Current Issues and Challenges -- Text Simplification System for Legal Contract Review -- Audio-based Detection of Anxiety and Depression via Vocal Biomarkers -- Automatic Detection and Spline-based Pixel-length Estimation of Fishes from Images.
    Abstract: The book is a valuable collection of papers presented in the Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC), conducted by Science and Information Organization on 4–5 April 2024 in Berlin. It received a total of 401 paper submissions out of which 139 are published after careful double-blind peer-review. Renowned and budding scholars, academics, and distinguished members of the industry assembled under one roof to share their breakthrough research providing answers to many complex problems boggling the world. The topics fanned across various fields involving Communication, Data Science, Ambient Intelligence, Networking, Computing, Security, and Privacy. .
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53960-2
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    Proceedings of ELM 2022 : Theory, Algorithms and Applications (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031550560
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 81 p. 32 illus., 31 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Proceedings in Adaptation, Learning and Optimization 18
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Application of ELM model to the motion detection of vehicles under moving background -- Distributed memory-efficient algorithm for Extreme Learning Machines based on Spark -- Does streaming affect video game popularity? -- Massive Offline Signature Forgery Detection with Extreme Learning Machines -- Importance of the Activation Function in Extreme Learning Machine for Acid Sulfate Soil Classification.
    Abstract: This book contains selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Extreme Learning Machines 2022. Extreme learning machines (ELMs) continue to be an important complement to the many deep learning models you can find in the machine learning domain. ELM is fast and therefore suitable for many applications (not only in edge computing), and therefore there is a need to gather examples of possible applications. These proceedings, for the ELM 2022 conference, cover several application areas with relevant topics, where ELM can be used and has been used with great success. Here you will find several new areas (gaming, for instance) as well as improved concepts for existing application areas (signature forgery, for instance), where ELM has been implemented. In addition, some method improvements are also covered in this book, more specifically on the topic of 2nd-order Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs).
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55056-0
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    Technology Innovation for Business Intelligence and Analytics (TIBIA) : Techniques and Practices for Business Intelligence Innovation (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031552212
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 513 p. 54 illus., 46 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Big Data 147
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Big data.
    Abstract: Product Differentiation Strategy between Cost Leadership -- Organizational Culture between Business Process Reengineering and Business Value -- Customisation Strategy and Product Variety on Operational Performance -- Team Creativity and Continuous Improvement on Time-To-Market -- Online Buying Behavior in the UAE Online Retail Industry: The Role of Emotional Intelligence.
    Abstract: This book provides a standpoint on how to effectively use technology innovation for business intelligence and analytics. It presents an approach that combines cutting-edge technological advancements with practical applications in the business world. The book covers a range of innovative technologies and how they can be applied to enhance business intelligence and analytics. It is primarily aimed at professionals in the business field data analysts and students studying subjects. This book is especially beneficial for those who want to grasp and apply the technological trends in making strategic business decisions. Its comprehensive coverage makes it an indispensable resource for anyone, in the intersection of technology and business analytics. .
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55221-2
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    Energy Regulation in Africa : Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031526770
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 633 p. 99 illus., 87 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Applied ethics. ; Economics. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Energy Regulation ; Energy Policy ; Energy Transition ; Africa's Energy ; Power Sector Reform ; Energy and Gender ; Energy Institutions ; Regulatory Institutions ; Renewable Energy ; Energy Access ; Energy Stakeholder management ; Performance of utilities ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I. Political Economy of Energy Regulation in Africa -- Chapter 1. The dynamics of energy regulation in Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 2. Africa’s Transition to Cleaner Energy: Regulatory imperatives and Governance Dynamics (Sidique Gawusu) -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Electricity Sector Regulation in Africa: A Comparative Analysis (Crispin Bobio) -- Chapter 4. The political economy of the next wave of power sector reforms in Africa: evidence from Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Namibia (Christine Juta) -- Chapter 5. Legal and Regulatory Pathways for Sub-Saharan Africa’s Energy Access and Energy Transition Agenda (Ivie Ehanmo) -- Chapter 6. Policy framework and regulations to promote clean energy and energy transition in ECOWAS countries (Charly Gatete) -- Chapter 7. Effective regulation and the energy transition in Zambia (Naa Adjekai Adjei) -- Chapter 8. The rationale of Economic Regulations: Theoretical Review (Haliru Dikko) -- Chapter 9. Power Sector Regulation in Africa in an Energy Transition Era (Pauline Anaman) -- Chapter 10. Role and Challenges of The African Energy Regulator in The Midst of Global Economic Storm (Benjamin Ashitey Armah) -- Chapter 11. Regulating Public utilities within a crisis’s situation in Africa (Etutu Mawondo Shalman) -- Chapter 12. The Electricity Tariff and Utility Performance: Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and Namibia Electricity Market (Jeffrey Baiden) -- Part II. Regional Electricity Markets Development -- Chapter 13. Major challenges in Africa in the development of competitive electricity markets. An analysis of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Market (Charly Gatete) -- Chapter 14. Regional Power Trade in Africa: The Different Institutional and Regulatory Models of African Power Pools (Mohamed A. Eltahir Elabbas) -- Chapter 15. An outlook on a Future-Proof Regulated Cross-Border Electricity Market in Africa (Oghosa Erhahon) -- Chapter 16. Cross-border power trading model for SSA; Challenges andopportunities of operationalizing power pools in Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 17. Competitiveness and sustainability of electricity markets in the ECOWAS region: evolution of reforms, regulations challenges and markets integration (Charly Gatete) -- Part III. Emerging Technologies and the Energy Transition -- Chapter 18. Energy-Related Climate Change Reportage in Africa: Has the Media Gotten It Right? (Maame Esi Eshun) -- Chapter 19. Effect of fossil fuel subsidies on renewable energy transition in sub-Saharan African countries (Souleymane Diallo) -- Chapter 20. The Gains and Pains of the Energy Transition. A perspective on Sub Saharan Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 21. Willingness to Change to Electric Cars: Is the Ghanaian Consumer Ready? (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 22. Economic power and the transition to renewables in South Africa (Sumayya Goga) -- Chapter 23. An analysis of imported clean cooking technologies. Implications for policy development in Ghana (Crispin Bobio) -- Chapter 24. Natural Gas as a Transition Fuel; Domestic Natural Gas Production and Energy Security in Ghana (Paul Minsung Gyeng) -- Part IV. Gender Mainstreaming in the Energy Sector -- Chapter 25. Putting Gender on the Corporate Agenda in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Industry (Phil Faanu) -- Chapter 26. The impact of gender, culture and other African traits in cooperating with energy regulators (Dominic Kwesi Eduah) -- Chapter 27. Imperatives for Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Sector Regulation In Africa (Ifeyinwa Ikeonu) -- Part V. Concluding Chapter -- Chapter 28. The future of energy regulation in Africa (Charly Gatete).
    Abstract: This book analyzes the political economy governing energy regulation across the African continent. Presenting case studies that span diverse energy sectors and countries, it provides an overview of their complex political and regulatory frameworks. The book explores emerging technologies and energy markets, highlighting Africa’s preparedness for the energy transition, and sheds light on the pivotal role of cross-border energy trade with regard to energy access. Further, it examines regulators’ influence within regional power pools, as well as their contribution to gender mainstreaming in the energy sector, addressing vital social issues. This book is divided into five parts, the first of which focuses on the political economy of energy regulation. The second part discusses emerging technologies and climate change issues, while the third examines regional energy markets, and regional institutional collaboration. The fourth part features contributions on gender mainstreaming, while part five rounds up the coverage. The book will be of interest to policymakers and investors in Africa, as well as scholars interested in energy regulation and economics.
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    Quantum Technology for Economists (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031507809
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 134 p. 30 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Economics
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    Keywords: Finance. ; Financial engineering. ; Computer science. ; Mathematics ; Social sciences ; Quantum States ; Oracles ; Quantum Fintech ; Quantum Money Schemes ; Quantum Dynamics ; Quantum Computing ; Monte Carlo Simulations ; Quantum Measurement ; Quantum Circuits ; Quantum Algorithms
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preliminaries -- Chapter 3. Quantum Algorithms -- Chapter 4. Quantum Financial Technology.
    Abstract: This book offers an introduction to quantum technology that is specifically tailored to economists, students of economics, and professionals in the financial and payments industries. The book reviews quantum speedups that have been identified for algorithms used to solve and estimate economic models, including function approximation, linear systems analysis, graphical modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, matrix inversion, principal component analysis, linear regression, dynamic programming, interpolation, numerical differentiation, and true random number generation. It also provides an overview of quantum financial technology and its potential applications in economics and finance. Written by an interdisciplinary team with backgrounds in economics, computer science, and physics, this book offers a valuable guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand the implications and possibilities of quantum technology for the field of economics.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50780-9
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    Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031533495
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 217 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; America ; Sex.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Studies of masculinities: an introduction -- 3 Poststructuralism and the «dissolution» of masculine identity -- 4 Masculinity as representation -- 5 Boys don’t cry? Masculinity and the politics of emotion -- 6 Dangerous liaisons? Friendships between men in Western history and culture -- 7 Masculinity as violence? Cultural and literary re-visions -- 8 Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms. While the first three chapters thus offer introductory theoretical perspectives on the latest research on white masculinities, the following chapters concentrate on applying masculinity theory to the analysis of both social constructions and cultural (i.e. literary and film) representations of men’s emotions (with a special focus on new fatherhood models), friendships between men, as well as gender-based violence. Josep M. Armengol is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His recent (co-)edited collections include Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions (2017) and Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
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    Data-Centric Business and Applications : Modern Trends in Financial and Innovation Data Processes 2023. Volume 2 (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 426 p. 123 illus., 75 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Business information services. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Formation of Strategies for the Development of Startup Ecosystems as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Entrepreneurship -- The Strategy of Sustainable Development of Digital Business in the Conditions of the Variability of the Business Environment and European Integration -- Business Development towards the Application of Innovative Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Technologies in the Context of Global Transformational Changes -- Methodological Principles of Smoothing the Effect of Seasonal Fluctuations on the Components of Labor Intensity in Construction -- Data-Driven Public Budgeting: Business Management Approach and Analytics Methods Algorithmization -- Research of Information Platforms and Digital Transformation Algorithms for Post-War Recovery of Ukrainian Business -- Diagnostics as a Tool for Managing Behavior and Economic Activity of Retailers in the Conditions of Digital Business Transformation -- Methodical Approach to Assessment of Real Losses Due to Damage and Destruction of Warehouse Real Estate -- Methodical Tools for Identification and Quality Control of Design Products -- Development of Information Processes as a Prerequisite for the Sustainable Development of Agricultural Enterprises -- Development and Increasing the Value Added Scenarios for the Woodworking Industry of Ukraine in the Context of the Circular Economy -- Methodological and Technological Solutions to Improve the Security of Ukraine's Accounting System during the Hostilities -- Modeling of the Strategy of Light Industry Enterprise Behavior under Crisis Conditions of Martial Law -- Innovative Technologies to Make Effective Business Decisions at Every Stage of a Mining Company's Development -- Innovative Method of Forecasting the Manifestation of Dangerous Properties of Coal Seams -- Assessment of the Efficiency of Decentralization Transformations in the Rural Areas of Ukrainian Western Polissia: Current Trends and Challenges Under the Conditions of Martial Law -- The Technological and Environmental Effect on Marketing of Children’s Food -- Model for Universal Classification of Social Agents’ Activity/Behavior in Hierarchical Systems.
    Abstract: This book examines aspects of financial and investment processes, as well as the application of information technology mechanisms to business and industrial management, using the experience of the Ukrainian economy as an example. An effective tool for supporting business data processing is combining modern information technologies and the latest achievements in economic theory. The variety of industrial sectors studied supports the continuous acquisition and use of efficient business analysis in organizations. In addition, the book elaborates on multidisciplinary concepts, examples, and practices that can be useful for researching the evolution of developments in the field. Also, in this book, there is a description of analysis methods for making decisions in business, finance, and innovation management.
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    Parliamentary Representation of Political Minorities : Arab-Palestinian Legislators in Israel (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031532504
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 323 p. 46 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Comparative Studies of Political Agendas
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Legislation. ; Comparative government. ; Middle East
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Arab Palestinian Minority within a Diverse, Multi-Ethnic, Militarized Society in Israel -- Chapter 2. Intersectional representation: Theory and practice -- Chapter 3. Parliamentary talk and procedures -- Chapter 4. The first period: 1949-1974 -- Chapter 5. The second period: 1974-1996 -- Chapter 6. The third period: 1996-2009 -- Chapter 7. The fourth period: 2009-2015 -- Chapter 8. The fifth period: 2015-2019 and 2021-2022 -- Chapter 9. The intersectional representation of Arab Palestinian legislators: A comparative analysis, 1949-2019 -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book assesses parliamentary speeches given by Arab representatives in the Israeli Knesset over the last 70 years, in order to throw light on the representation of political minorities. It examines several political ‘identities’ available to legislators with intersectional representation – including gender, religion and nationality – and considers the ways in which legislators utilise these various identities when representing their constituencies to further their political aims. The book also puts forward a new theoretical framework to better assess intersectional representation, especially in multi-national settings. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, political representation, and comparative politics, as well Middle Eastern politics. Osnat Akirav is a Faculty Member at the Multidisciplinary Department, Western Galilee College, Israel.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53250-4
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    Artificial Intelligence in Education: The Power and Dangers of ChatGPT in the Classroom (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 675 p. 72 illus., 61 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Big Data 144
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Big data.
    Abstract: Welcome to the Age of ChatGPT -- The Coming ChatGPT -- Exploring the Interpretability of Sequential Predictions through Rationale Model -- AI in Education: An Overview -- Adopting the Power of AI Chatbots for Enriching Students Learning in Civil Engineering Education: A Study on Capabilities and Limitations -- Revolutionizing Education of Art and Design through ChatGPT -- ChatGPT-Artificial Intelligence Studies of Business Analytics Adoption and Usage.
    Abstract: This book aims to bring together a collection of innovative and cutting-edge research that addresses the various challenges in the application and theoretical aspects of ChatGPT in education. ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI that has the ability to generate human-like text based on a prompt. This has significant potential for use in the field of education, as it allows for the creation of personalized, interactive learning experiences, automating assessment and grading, and more. In e-learning, ChatGPT is used to provide instant feedback and support to students, as well as generate interactive conversations in the target language for language learning. It is also integrated with existing learning management systems and educational technology platforms to enhance their capabilities. In research, ChatGPT is used for natural language processing and sentiment analysis to gather insights on student learning experiences and educational outcomes. However, it is important to note that there are also ethical and privacy concerns that come with using language models like ChatGPT in education, such as data protection and the potential for bias. Overall, the use of ChatGPT in education has the potential to revolutionize the way we learn, teach, and access information. The book seeks to publish original manuscripts that cover a broad range of topics, from the development of new chatbot technologies and their integration into the classroom, to the examination of the ethical and pedagogical implications of these systems. By compiling the latest developments in the field and highlighting new areas for exploration, this book provides valuable insights and perspectives for researchers, educators, and practitioners working in the field of ChatGPT and education. The ultimate goal is to advance the understanding of ChatGPT and its role in education and to promote its effective and responsible use in the classroom and beyond.
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    Human Minds and Cultures (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 196 p. 3 illus.)
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    Keywords: Philosophy of mind. ; Culture ; Science
    Abstract: Preface -- Dedication -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Sanjit Chakraborty) -- Chapter 2. Thoughts on Morality and Culture (Jan Narveson) -- Chapter 3. Values and Cultures (Harry J Gensler) -- Chapter 4. Clashes of Culture (Michael Smith) -- Chapter 5. Hatred – Why Do Such Nice People Do Such Awful Things? (Michael Ruse) -- Chapter 6. Neoliberalism, Globalization and Discrimination in the 21st Century: Issues, Challenges and Limitations of Habermas’ Reason-based Theory of Liberal Democracy in Current Times (Deborah Poff) -- Chapter 7. Legal Emotions: Why Affect Matters for Law (Antara Halder) -- Chapter 8. The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism (Neil Sinhababu) -- Chapter 9. The Interpreting Mind and Meaning-Formation: A Relational Critique of Lyotard … and Ricœur (Gerald Cipriani) -- Chapter 10. Recurring Dilemmas on Other Minds (Sanjit Chakraborty).
    Abstract: This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts—human minds and cultures—and strives for a multicultural spectrum of philosophical explorations that could assist them in pondering the striking pursuit of envisaging human minds and cultures as an essential appraisal of philosophy and the social sciences. The book hinges on a theoretical understanding of the indispensable liaison between the dichotomy of minds and objectivity residing in semantic-ontological conjectures. The ethnographic sense of cultures confines the scope of cultural scientism, an evolutionary paradigm on the functionalist turn, where one could enthral the cultural phenomenon from the contentment of the conflict of scientific quandaries. Hence, cultural relativism concedes that cultures have some descriptive contents, like customs, beliefs, moral codes, other minds, etc., that are followed by an individual or a group of people. However, the notion of societal semiotics embarks on the ‘semiotic conception of culture’ that deploys modernity and values centred on ethical conjectures. Human Minds and Cultures conspicuously attune the cultural edifice of moral minds and cope with the enduring prospects of ethics, genders, laws, and socio-political affairs. Essential reading for anyone with a sparkling interest in human minds and cultures.
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    Re-thinking Travel Writing : The Journey of a Genre (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031561887
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 222 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism
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    Abstract: -- 1 Did COVID kill travel writing?. -- 2 A complicated relationship. -- 3 What’s in a name?. -- 4 So now everyone’s a travel writer?. -- 5 Freebies, junkets and other ethical dilemmas. -- 6 The night writer: The emergence of nocturnal travel writing. -- 7 Re-imagining within history and creative ethnography. -- 8 A post-pandemic creative exploration. -- 9 How travel writers can help save the planet and still do their jobs. -- 10 Where to from here?.
    Abstract: “In an age where 'anyone might be a travel writer', this is a provocative and illuminating handbook for writers and a rigorous, thoughtful study for critics.” · Dr Patrick Mullins, Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction winner 2020, Douglas Stewart prize for Non-Fiction winner 2020. Australian National University National Centre of Biography. “This both readable and rigorous work is a solid addition to the study of one of literature’s most enduring, shape-shifting genres.” · Dr John Borthwick, Australian Society of Travel Writers’ Travel Writer of the Year 2022, Pacific Asia Travel Association Gold Award winner 2022. This book stems from the question that we as co-authors grappled with for the past 3-plus years while in our own periods of stasis during the pandemic: What place does the travel writing genre hold in a post-COVID world? With the massive interruptions to travel and travel writing across 2020-2023 as the pandemic forced us indoors and into isolation, it also raised many other pertinent questions about the practice of and future of travel writing. Part of the prompt for this book comes from the post-pandemic assumption that in an ecologically fraught, less mobile, and more uncertain world, there may not be a place for travel writing as we know it to exist in any meaningful way. We examine the problems and solutions apparent for travel writing as it engages with a period of re-thinking, prompted by the pandemic, though necessary for a plethora of other reasons as well. As academics and travel writing practitioners, with decades of experience in the field, we offer a unique perspectiveon this topic – as we have the in-the-field experience of professional travel writers, and we have the academic grounding to better understand the history, theoretical concerns and contradictions of the genre to provide a more in-depth perspective to our travel writing colleagues. This grounding allows us to access a unique and valuable perspective for Re-thinking Travel Writing: The Journey of a Genre for academics, aspiring travel writers and contemporary colleagues in the field. Dr. Ben Stubbs is a senior lecturer in journalism and creative writing at the University of South Australia. Dr. Lee Mylne is a media academic who also maintains a successful career as a freelance journalist, specializing in travel and tourism.
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    Counterterrorism in Transition : Post-2011 Tunisian democracy and the war on terror (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031541841
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 186 p. 3 illus.)
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    Keywords: Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Human rights. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2. Terrorism, counterterrorism and democracy: theoretical tools and empirical methods -- Chapter 3. Fighting terrorism in transition: Tunisian CT between the local and the global -- Chapter 4. The Discourse of the War on Terror in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia -- Chapter 5. The price to be paid. The impacts of counterterrorism on a new democratic polity -- Chapter 6. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This volume offers a critical examination of how counterterrorism measures influence democratic processes, with a specific focus on the case study of post-2011 Tunisia. More concretely, it assesses the effects of counterterrorist discourses and practices on the democratic transition initiated after the Dignity Revolution of 2010-2011. Tunisia has been the only Arab country to experience a structured democratic transition after the Arab uprisings. However, the measures taken to counter the rise of salafi jihadism in the country strongly marked the transitional process. This research analyses the detrimental impact of counterterrorism on Tunisian political transition and democratic consolidation. It highlights human rights violations and their legitimization, the strengthening of repressive mechanisms, the enactment of liberticidal laws, the normalization of exceptional governance, and the constriction of public space, while also detailing its negative effects on the state's economy. The book posits that the counterterrorism rhetoric and policies have played a significant role in facilitating the democratic backsliding witnessed in Tunisia beginning in 2021. The research adopts a discursive-ethnographic approach that integrates critical analysis of presidential and parliamentary discourse with extensive fieldwork among institutional and associative actors in Tunisia. The volume represents the first comprehensive and holistic assessment of counterterrorism discourses and policies implemented in post-2011 Tunisia, highlighting their progressive impact on democratic transition. Guendalina Simoncini is post-doctoral researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.
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    Modern Money Theory : A Simple Guide to the Monetary System (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031535376
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 130 p. 22 illus.)
    Series Statement: Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations
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    Keywords: Macroeconomics. ; Finance. ; Economics. ; Modern Monetary Theory ; Financial Policy ; Monetary Policy ; Monetary Theory ; Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory ; Economic Policy ; Inflation ; Government Spending ; Central Banks ; Government Bonds ; International Trade ; Financial Economics ; Monetary Systems
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Biden Administration and the Copernican Turn -- Chapter 3. The paper currency of Virginia (1760s) and its lessons -- Chapter 4. Modern Money Theory as Part of Economics -- Chapter 5. What is economic policy? -- Chapter 6. Economic policies based on MMT -- Chapter 7. Outlook.
    Abstract: This book explains how central banks, banks and governments create money. Written in an accessible style, this book provides an introduction to modern monetary theory without requiring any prior knowledge of economics. It covers the most important aspects of monetary theory, including inflation targeting, government spending, and international trade, as well as economic policy to achieve macroeconomic goals, such as price stability, full employment and sustainable use of resources. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for students of economics, central bankers, banking professionals, and academics alike.
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    Notes on Consumption Theory : Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamic Models (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 145 p. 25 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Microeconomics. ; Macroeconomics. ; Econometrics. ; Social sciences ; Consumer Economics ; Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic programming ; Continuous-time stochastic optimization ; Discrete-time stochastic optimization ; Stochastic intertemporal model ; Intertemporal consumption ; Uncertain income ; Portfolio allocation ; Efficiency pricing ; Empirical estimates ; Neoclassical growth theory ; Technological progress ; Sustainable growth
    Abstract: Consumption and Certainty -- Consumption and Uncertainty in Discrete-time -- Consumption and Portfolio Rules -- Consumption and Economic Growth -- Consumption and Uncertainty in Continuous Time.
    Abstract: This textbook offers a compact, yet formal, synthesis of the broad field of consumption theory. Written in a coherent and accessible way, this book introduces graduate and postgraduate students to dynamic optimization applied to consumption under certainty and uncertainty, in discrete and continuous time. Delving into deterministic and stochastic models, including the use of Brownian motions, the book offers a deeper understanding of consumption decisions and their impact on asset pricing and investment in partial and general equilibrium. This book compiles lecture notes from advanced courses in micro- and macroeconomics, ensuring a self-contained introduction to the subject. Balancing simplicity with analytical rigor, the book equips readers with essential methodological tools for advanced research in economics. With empirical evidence and exercises integrated throughout, this textbook stands as the go-to resource for scholars and students alike, fostering further theoretical explorations in the field. Basic knowledge of economics, mathematics, and econometrics is recommended for a comprehensive understanding.
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    The Politicisation of the European Commission’s Presidency : Spitzenkandidaten and Beyond (2024)
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    ISBN: 9783031481734
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 344 p. 4 illus.)
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    Keywords: Political planning. ; Europe ; Political leadership.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Politicisation of the European Commission’s Presidency -- 2. The Selection of the European Commission Leadership in Historical Perspective -- 3. Models of EU Democracy and the Politics of Leadership (S)Election -- 4. The Rise and Fall of the Spitzenkandidat? The Inner Logic of Parliamentary Federation -- 5. The Spitzenkandidaten Process: Establishing an Ambiguous Constitutional Convention? -- 6. The Law and Politics of Electoral Reform in the EU -- 7. Paths to Spitzenkandidaten -- 8. The Spitzenkandidaten Process in the Context of the EP Campaign: The Role of Party Competition -- 9. Interinstitutional Conflict in the Context of Leadership Appointment of the Commission -- 10. The Juncker Commission: Internal Perceptions of a Spitzenkandidaten Presidency -- 11. The European Council’s Electoral Power: The National Leaders as Driving Forces behind EU Top-level Appointments -- 12. The European Parliament and the Spitzenkandidaten Process -- 13. Much ado about nothing? Assessingthe Impact of the Spitzenkandidaten Process on EU Policy-Making -- 14. Conclusion: Whither the Spitzenkandidaten Process?
    Abstract: This book is the first systematic effort to investigate the ramifications of the introduction of the Spitzenkandidaten process for the appointment of the President of the European Commission. It does so by examining the first two applications of the Spitzenkandidaten process from an historical, legal and political perspective. Although this process has spurred vibrant debate regarding its impact on EU elections and the EU political system, it has yet to be comprehensively analysed by scholars. Addressing this important gap, the book provides a conceptual framework for analysing the impact of the Spitzenkandidaten process, takes stock of its internal, inter-institutional and constitutional repercussions, and assesses its future prospects. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book touches on several important themes, including European elections, EU policy making, leadership, legitimacy, supranationalism and European integration. Published to coincide with the 2024 European Parliament election, it will appeal to scholars and students of the politics of European integration, public administration, governance, European politics and EU constitutional law. Matilde Ceron is a Researcher at the University of Salzburg, Austria. She was previously a Max Weber Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy. Thomas Christiansen is Professor of Political Science and European Integration at LUISS University, Italy. Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos is Reader in European Politics and the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in Parliamentary Democracy and European Integration at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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    Cause and Effect in Fiction (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 103 p.)
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Philosophy. ; Creative writing.
    Abstract: 1. Cause and Effect in Fiction: An Introduction -- 2. Causation and Causation in Fiction -- 3. Cause and Effect in Plot -- 4. Cause and Effect in Character -- 5. Cause and Effect in Setting -- 6. Cause and Effect in Dialogue -- 7. Cause and Effect in Theme -- 8. Cause and Effect, Counterfactuals, and the Role of Fiction in our Psychic Lives -- 9. Objections and Replies.
    Abstract: This book explores and defends George Saunders’ causal thesis that successful stories are those that establish causation well. The book includes an in-depth discussion of causation’s role in several different key craft elements of fiction writing and examines different theories of causation and their implications for causation in fiction. Other discussions include the role of causation in building suspense, character and causation, causation in dialogue and connections between fiction and counterfactuals (or hypotheticals). The book also considers a number of objections to the causal thesis and offers a reply. Frances Howard-Snyder is a Philosophy Professor at Western Washington University and has co-authored a logic textbook. She has also published numerous articles on ethics and philosophy of religion. She has an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and has published stories in The Magnolia Review, Silver Pen, Halfway Down the Stairs, as well as other publications. For more information, see franceshowardsnyder.com.
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    American Football and the American Way of War : The Gridiron and the Battlefield (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 182 p. 26 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
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    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.The American Military and Football -- Chapter 3 International Relations Theory -- Chapter 4. Strategic Theory -- Chapter 5. Football and U.S. Military Strategy -- Chapter 6. Levels of War -- Chapter 7.Operations and the Principles of War -- Chapter 8. Application of Joint Doctrine and Joint Functions -- Chapter 9. Design, Planning, and Problem Solving -- Chapter 10. Revolution, Innovation, and Adaptation -- Chapter 11. Civil-Military Relations -- Chapter 12. The Similarities -- Chapter 13. The Differences -- Chapter 14. Conclusion / Epilogue -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This book provides the reader with a history on the linkages between American Football and the American Way of War. It provides concise summaries of aspects of tactics, operations, and strategy, as well as international relations theory using football as a metaphor to simplify the concepts. International relations theory and military strategy tend to be complicated subjects often explained with jargon that puts the average reader to sleep. A book about war and foreign policy explained through football analogies and comparisons is designed to liven the topic and explain various military theories, strategies, and concepts. War and football tend to dominate national media. War is often a topic of debate from the highest levels of government to local bars and coffeehouses. Football is the monolith of sports that blankets sports television and radio throughout the year. This book provides the reader an understanding of how military professionals formulate and execute strategy in an easily understandable manner. Daniel Sukman is an Army Strategist who served as the Chief of Strategy Development on the Joint Staff”.
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    Industrial Policies for Technological Upgrading in Western Balkan Countries : Economic Growth and Development (2024)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 199 p. 26 illus., 25 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Industrial policy. ; Development economics. ; Economic policy. ; Economic development in Western Balkans ; Capability building ; Technology upgrading ; Economic growth rates ; Innovation capabilities ; Firm performance heterogeneity ; Organizational capabilities ; Management capabilities ; Business performance ; Policies for technology upgrading ; Physical and human capacities ; Industrial policies
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature and analytical framework -- 3. Capability building and technology upgrading in Western Balkan economies -- 4. Policies for technology upgrading in the Western Balkan economies -- 5. New industrial policy approach -- 6. The economic context of the Western Balkans and some basic economic indicators -- 7. Physical and human capacities -- 8. The role of resources and organizational capabilities.
    Abstract: This book focuses on Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo; it explores the industrial policies currently in place in these economies and compares their effects with the situation in Slovenia, which is used as a reference country. It provides a brief introduction to some new industrial policy approaches and proposes a new industrial policy framework that focuses on development of the national innovation system through technology upgrading and increased exploitation of technology to build the foundations for sustainable development. Finally, it provides an empirical analysis of the technological capabilities of the manufacturing firms operating in in Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo. It delves into the technical-economic properties of these Western Balkans countries and identifies some strategic options for industrial policy. It emphasizes the need for a form of governance that emphasizes on industrial development and innovation capabilities, which are required for the implementation of these new industrial policies. The analysis draws on the current industrial policy literature and work on developing (catch-up) economies, technological upgrading and innovation studies, which represent current academic thinking in these fields. Fadil Sahiti is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo. His research interests are in the area of firm capability building and technology upgrading, exploring industrial policy issues that enable or constrain the emergence of innovative firms in less developed economies.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51429-6
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    Military Heroism in a Post-Heroic Era (2024)
    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
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    ISBN: 9783031515569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 309 p. 13 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Military and Society
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    Keywords: Politics and war. ; Political science. ; Sociology. ; Anthropology. ; Culture
    Abstract: Part one: Introduction -- Part Two: Re-examining Classic Approaches -- Which kind of hero? Thoughts on archetypes of military heroism. Joseph Soeters, Emeritus professor Tilburg University, the Netherlands, (jmml.soetersgmail.com) The Morale Component of the Russia-Ukraine War. Adi Sherzer & Samuel Boumendil Han Solo and Professor Moriarty: what interviewing soldiers taught me about heroism. Morten Brænder, Aarhus University -- Part Three: Changing National Contexts -- Between Heroization and Victimization. Assessing Empirical Evidence of Representations of Veterans in a Pre- and Post-Heroic Era (UK) Rita Phillips, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen UK,Contact: r.phillips5@rgu.ac.uk, Vince Connelly,Oxford Brookes University, UK, vconnelly@brookes.ac.uk I (still) need a Hero: Civilians, Society and the Continuing Need for military Heroism and Heroes (Israel). Elisheva Rosman, Bar-Ilan University From zero to hero: A conceptual framework of creating and recreating heroism based on the Estonian experience. Kairi Kasearu, Tiia-Triin Truusa, Eleri Lillemäe Canada’s military and the post-heroic condition. Eric Ouellet, Ph.D. Department of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada South Korea: Declining but Persistent Military Heroism. Insoo Kim Civilian and military perceptions of heroism in war in Norway. On diverging paths? Torunn Haaland -- Part Four: Contested and Questioning Contexts Japan: a pacified heroism. Saya Kiba and Atsushi Yasutomi Military heroism in Germany: A contested and ever-changing concept. Maren Tomforde Legitimate Use of Violence? Interrogating the Hero-Soldier of the Marawi War in the Philippines. Rosalie Arcala Hall and Duvince Zhalimar Dumpit University of the Philippines Visayas rbarcalahall@up.edu.ph -- Part Five: Emerging Form of Alternative Heroism: Illustrating the post-heroic hero? Portraying the technological hero in Israel. Oshri Bar-Gil -- Military Contractors in a Post-Heroic Society: Organizational Adaptation and Military Autonomy. Christopher Kinsey and Eyal Ben-Ari Heroism in the Context of a Global Pandemic: Canadian Armed Forces Domestic Deployment in Response to COVID-19. Keith Pearce, PhD, Kathy Michaud, PhD, Irina Goldenberg, PhD, & Matthew G. Huebner, MA. Epilogue -- Re-enchanting the Heroic Military and continued enchantment. René Moelker, Eyal Ben-Ari, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Nehemia Stern .
    Abstract: This book explores the variety of forms that individual heroism and sacrifice can take in the context of contemporary military conflicts. It addresses three key questions: How has an enduring ideal of heroism been transformed by the nature of modern warfare? Are we now witnessing the emergence of new forms of exemplary military behavior? And, have new ideals of heroism (and by association, sacrifice or bravery) been added to older forms in the recent past? The book advocates viewing the concept of military heroism as a moral category, in which its theoretical definition and empirical practice reflect those factors that are seen as being vital for society itself. The key theoretical and topical challenges addressed in the respective chapters focus on how ideas of heroism become entwined with issues of individualization (bolstered by the cultural assumptions of neo-Liberalism), the spread of the human rights discourse, and the judicialization, marketization and mediatization of armed forces. The book was written by experts on military studies, including many who are currently active military personnel. It includes contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. anthropology, sociology, psychology, and political science.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51556-9
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