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  • 101
    Online Resource
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    Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited
    ISBN: 9789811563416
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (133 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307.76
    Keywords: Urbanization ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Colliding Utopias -- Words and Places -- Representations and Narratives -- The Urban Village -- Nostalgia -- Community and Society in Early Sociology -- A Metropolitan Imaginary -- Colliding Dreams -- Chapter 2: From Arcadia to Plotlands -- Port Sunlight -- Arcadia -- The Landscaped Park -- Rousham -- Mortality and Liberalism -- The Garden City -- Working-class Arcadias -- Chapter 3: Drawing a Line -- Methods of Thinking -- Cosmopolis? -- Drawing a Line -- Nuanced Spaces -- Chapter 4: The Contradictions of Modernism -- After the Bombing -- Looking Forward -- Design for a Humane World -- Divided Spaces -- The Heart of the City -- Lived Spaces? -- Chapter 5: Post-industrial Ruinscapes -- New Wastelands -- The Ruhr -- Duisburg Nord -- Industrial Nuances -- Unsanctioned Use and Urban Exploration -- Chapter 6: An Urban Revolution? -- Another Kind of City? -- The Rural in the City -- The Inscription of the City -- Domestic Space as Urban Revolution -- A Right to the City -- Changing Cities -- Index.
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  • 102
    ISBN: 9789811373077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (228 pages)
    Series Statement: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307.336
    Keywords: Squatter settlements-Asia ; Squatter settlements-Latin America ; Sustainability ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction, Findings, and Reflections -- 1 A Different Approach to Tackle the Same Problem -- 2 The Phenomena of Informal Settlements in the Tropics. Confronting Asia and Latin America -- 3 Some Reflexions About Regeneration Actions to Improve Informal Settlements -- References -- Infrastructure. Urban Regeneration Through Spatial Connection -- Street-Led Citywide Slum Upgrading: Connecting the Informal and the Formal City Through Area-Based Planning and Infrastructure Improvement -- 1 Preamble -- 2 Slums: Facts and Figures -- 3 Revisiting the Foundations of the Street-Led Slum Upgrading Strategy: The Area-Based Plan -- 4 Defining the Street-Led Slum Upgrading Approach and Its Goals -- 5 The Practice of Street-Led Slum Upgrading -- 6 The Rationale and Benefits of a Street-Led Approach to Renewing and Upgrading Informal Settlements -- 7 Reflections on Citywide Slum Upgrading from Latin America -- 8 The Brazilian Experience in Street-Led Slum Upgrading: Favela Jacarezinho -- 9 Street-Led Citywide Slum Upgrading Programme in São Paulo -- 10 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Resilient Slum Upgrading in Indonesia. Improving Spatial Connections from Bottom and Top -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Origins of the Kampung Improvement Programme: Initiatives, Objectives and Components -- 3 KIP, from Institutional to Community-Based Development. Balancing Planning, Community and Funding -- 4 Resilience in the Focus of the KIP. Spatial Connectivity to Achieve Flooding Resilience -- 4.1 The Case of Kampung Kebalen in Surabaya -- 5 KIP. Recognising the Success of the Innovative Resilient Upgrading Approach -- 6 Updating the Spatial Connectivity Upgrading Approach Through Community Participation and Social Resilience.
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  • 103
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    Online Resource
    Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited
    ISBN: 9789811562884
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (118 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 111.85
    Keywords: Nature and nurture ; Culture-Study and teaching ; Environmental economics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- An Archipelagic Enunciation from Okinawa Island -- Hybridity and Heterolingual Address -- RSSI and the Practice of Heterolingual Address -- Tojisha -- The Jiritsu Model of Island Societies -- Shutai and Shutaisei in RSSI -- Conclusion: Performativity and Islandness -- References -- Prospects for Island Studies -- Islands as Safe Havens: Thinking About Security and Safety on Guåhan/Guam -- Safety and Security on Guam -- Whose Security? Whose Safety? -- Talking About Being and Feeling Safe -- Characterizing Guam -- Do the Bases Make You Safe? -- Where Do You Feel Safe? -- Obligation to Contribute to Security -- Conclusion: Gender, Militarization and Being/Feeling Safe on Guam -- References -- Island Studies and the US Militarism of the Pacific -- References -- Island Studies Inside (and Outside) of the Academy: The State of this Interdisciplinary Field -- Introduction -- The Institutions of Island Studies -- Supranational Island Organisations -- Island Research Centres or Institutes -- University-Based Island Institutes -- Institutions of Island Scholars -- Expressions of Island Studies Through Journals -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- The Perspective of Cultural Heritage/Cultural Landscape in Critical Island Studies -- Introduction -- Landscape as an Arena for Contestation -- Taiwan's Experience in Creating Cultural Landscape as a Heritage-Normatization of the Value of the Landscape as a Cultural Heritage -- Heritization of Cultural Landscape -- Museum Establishment in Jinguashi -- Jinguashi Mines as 'Dissonant Heritage' -- Dissonance in Landscape: Place for Multiple and Plural Values -- Historical Dissonance -- Present Dissonance: Emergence of Multiple Values Accompanied by Dissonance -- Conciliation and Dialogue in the Landscape -- Conclusion -- References.
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  • 104
    ISBN: 9789811515361
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (333 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 330.95100000000002
    Keywords: Economic development ; Economic development-China-Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu ; Economic development-China-Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Previous Scholarship, Methodology and the Concept of Development -- 1.1 The Kaleidoscopic Dimension of Xinjiang and the Genesis of This Work -- 1.1.1 How Did This Work Start? -- 1.1.2 Historical and Cultural Background -- 1.2 Previous Research -- 1.2.1 Xinjiang Economic Situation -- 1.2.2 Xinjiang Social Issues -- 1.2.3 Notes on Ethnicity as Determinant of Development Disparities: Some Reference Works -- 1.2.4 Internal Colonialism and Ethnicity -- 1.2.5 Capabilities and Human Development Index (HDI) -- 1.3 Research Problem and Questions -- 1.3.1 Research Problem -- 1.3.2 Research Question -- 1.3.3 Ethnicity and Inequality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Xinjiang Economic Development -- 2.1 From Special Economic Zones to the Belt and Road Initiative -- 2.2 Regional Characteristics and Resources -- 2.2.1 Geographic Position -- 2.2.2 Demographic and Administrative Profile of Xinjiang -- 2.2.3 The Uyghurs -- 2.3 Historical Outline Since the Collapse of the Qing Dynasty -- 2.3.1 The "Great Game" and the Warlords' Period -- 2.3.2 Post-1949 Xinjiang -- 2.3.3 Twenty-First Century Xinjiang -- 2.4 Macroeconomic Profile -- 2.4.1 Xinjiang Development in the 1990s -- 2.4.2 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) -- 2.4.3 Per Capita GDP -- 2.4.4 GDP Composition by Sector and Increase Rate -- 2.4.5 Primary Sector -- 2.4.6 Secondary Sector -- 2.4.6.1 Resources -- 2.4.6.2 Xinjiang's Oil and Other Resources -- 2.4.6.3 Infrastructural Projects -- 2.4.7 Tertiary Sector -- 2.4.8 Agriculture, Industry and Services -- 2.4.9 Central, Provincial/Regional, Local and International Investments -- 2.4.10 Urban-Rural Divide and Increase in the Agricultural Output -- 2.5 Infrastructures and Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) -- 2.5.1 Infrastructures.
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  • 105
    ISBN: 9789811513183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (226 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 106
    ISBN: 9789811568114
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 237 pages) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 107
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    Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited
    ISBN: 9789811585029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (132 pages)
    Series Statement: Global Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 613.950967
    Keywords: Sexual health ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Principle of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Why It Is Central to Broad Advancements in Human Health and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Gender and Health -- Conceptualizing Sexual and Reproductive Health -- Delineation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues -- Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Political, Normative and Socio-legal Perspectives -- Chapter 3: Sexual and Reproductive Health as Rights -- Human Rights -- Citizen Entitlements -- Integrated Conception of Sexual and Reproductive Health -- Defining Sexual and Reproductive Health -- Components of Sexual Health -- Components of Reproductive Health -- Sexual Rights -- Reproductive Rights -- Sexual and Reproductive Health as Rights -- Chapter 4: Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Normative Developments, Contexts and Issues -- The Limits of SRHR Normative Congruence -- Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contexts and Issues -- Contexts -- Demography -- HIV and SRH-Related Disease Burdens -- Gender -- Health Systems and Health Systems Funding -- Issues -- Contraception and Abortion -- Contraception -- Abortion -- Responding to the Difficult SRH Contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The Map Is Not the Territory -- Open Access -- Chapter 5: Challenges, Progress and Prospects -- Policy-Making Conundrums -- The Organization and Funding of Health Service Provision for SRH -- HIV/AIDS and Universal Health Coverage -- The Global Drive Towards Universal Health Coverage -- Universal Health Coverage and the HIV Response -- Issues and Challenges -- Reconciling UHC-Driven Integration and Dedicated HIV/AIDS Responses -- African Regionalism and SRH -- Conclusion: Complex Issues, Large Commitments, Incremental Progress -- Index.
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  • 108
    ISBN: 9789811522529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (236 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 003.7
    Keywords: Self-organizing systems ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Self-Organisation Approach Redefines Travel Behaviour -- 1.3 Structuration Theory Is the Mechanism of the Self-Organisation Process -- 1.4 Self-Organisation Approach and Transport Planning -- 1.4.1 Self-Organisation Process Influences Accessibility -- 1.5 Transport-Related Social Exclusion and the Self-Organisation Process -- 1.5.1 Transport-Related Social Exclusion Model and Self-Organisation -- 1.6 Self-Organisation Process and Social Justice -- 1.7 Other Contributions of Self-Organisation to Urban Transport Planning -- 1.8 Objectives of the Book -- 1.9 Methodology -- 1.10 Principal Hypotheses of this Book -- 1.10.1 Elaboration of the Research Hypotheses -- 1.11 The Organisation of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Self-Organisation, Travel Behaviour and Social Exclusion -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Self-Organisation and Complex Travel Behaviours -- 2.3 Mechanism of Self-Organisation Process: Structuration Theory -- 2.4 Social Structure Is the Root Cause of Accessibility Problems -- 2.5 The Concepts of Social Exclusion -- 2.5.1 Social Exclusion Includes Entitlement Failure -- 2.5.2 Transport-Related Social Exclusion -- 2.5.3 Government Policy Is the Root Cause of Transport-Related Social Exclusion -- 2.5.4 Social Exclusion and the Self-Organisation Process -- 2.6 Transforming Unjust Policies to Minimise Social Exclusion -- 2.7 Enabling Individual Actions to Minimise Social Exclusion -- 2.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Self-Organisation Process, Accessibility and Principles of Justice -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Accessibility and Its Role in the Self-Organisation Process -- 3.3 Accessibility Means Freedom to Achieve Well-being and the Ability to Penetrate Obstructions.
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  • 109
    ISBN: 9789811544477
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (250 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 338.479151
    Keywords: Tourism-China ; Tourism ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization for Sustainable Tourism Products -- 1 Introduction -- 2 CiteSpace -- 3 Material and Methodology -- 3.1 Data Collection -- 3.2 Methodologies -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Search Results -- 4.2 Collaborative Networks of Authors and Cited Authors -- 4.3 Institutions and Their Geographic Location -- 4.4 Countries and Cited Countries Analysis -- 4.5 Funding Agencies Statistic -- 4.6 Cited Journal Analysis -- 4.7 Keywords Co-occurrence and Burst Subject -- 4.8 Co-citation Analysis for References -- 5 Conclusions and Implication -- References -- Discovering Tourists' Perception About Food by AI and NI -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 2.1 Tourism Destination Image and the Food Dimension -- 2.2 Textual Content Analysis and Tourism Destination Image -- 2.3 Visual Content Analysis and Tourism Destination Image -- 2.4 Technology Breakthrough for Visual Content Analysis -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Dataset and the Study City -- 3.1 Dataset-Flickr YFCC 100M -- 3.2 The Study City -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Framework -- 4.2 Visual Content Analysis -- 5 Result -- 5.1 Descriptive Analysis -- 5.2 Food Perception of Tourists from Three Continents -- 5.3 Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Tourists' Eating Preferences -- 5.4 Integration -- 6 Conclusion and Future Work -- 6.1 Empirical Contribution for DMOs -- 6.2 Theoretical Contribution -- References -- A Comparative Analysis of the Cruise Price in China and Spain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Database, Methodology and Model -- 3.1 Database -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.3 Model -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Analysis of Factors Influencing the Growing Motivation of Asian Youths for Adventure Tourism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Objectives -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Adventure Tourism, Perception and Acceptability.
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  • 110
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    Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited
    ISBN: 9789811566035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (237 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301.0973
    Keywords: Sociology-United States ; Sociology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Interview 1 Christopher Winship -- Interview 2 Peter V. Marsden -- Interview 3 Mary C. Waters -- Interview 4 Ezra F. Vogel -- Interview 5 John L. Campbell -- Interview 6 Frank Dobbin -- Interview 7 Mario L. Small -- Interview 8 Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Interview 9 James A. Evans -- Introduction -- Interview 10 Andrew D. Abbott -- Interview 11 Dingxin Zhao -- Interview 12 Arlie R. Hochschild -- Interview 13 Peter Shawn Bearman -- Interview 14 Michèle Lamont -- Interview 15 Viviana A. Zelizer -- Interview 16 Annette P. Lareau -- Interview 17 Philip S. Gorski -- Interview 18 Randall Collins -- Interview 19 Michael Burawoy -- Interview 20 Andrew G. Walder -- Afterword.
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  • 111
    ISBN: 9789811537387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (452 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307.76
    Keywords: Urban policy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Part I Supporting National Urban Policy with Smart and Green Urban Principles -- 1 Locating the Importance of NUP in the Context of Present Urban Challenges -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Overview of Global Urbanisation -- 1.3 National Urban Policy: Tools for Development -- 1.4 Urban Challenges and National Urban Policy: Experiences in Asia and Pacific -- 1.5 Urban Challenges and Experiences in Formulating NUP: Africa -- 1.6 Urban Experience of Developed Countries: Unique Challenges and NUP -- 1.7 Smart and Green Cities-Case Studies of Korea and Singapore -- 1.8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2 World Urbanisation: Trends and Patterns -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Trends of World Urbanisation -- 2.3 Regional Trends of Urban Population -- 2.4 Spatial Pattern of Global Urbanisation -- 2.5 Urban Hierarchy: Trend of Size-Class Distribution of Global Urban Population -- 2.6 Spatial Pattern of Cities by Size Class of Urban Settlements, 1950, 2015 and 2050 -- 2.7 Interlinkages Between Urbanisation and Economic Development: Implications for Future -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 3 National Urban Policy: Tool for Development -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A Global Overview of Urbanisation -- 3.2.1 Urbanisation Challenge and Opportunities -- 3.2.2 Responding to Urban Development Challenges -- 3.3 History of National Urban Policies -- 3.3.1 National Urban Policies in the Twentieth Century -- 3.3.2 Resurgent Interest in National Urban Policies (2000 and Beyond) -- 3.4 National Urban Policy in the Global Context -- 3.4.1 National Urban Policy (NUP) and Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- 3.4.2 Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) -- 3.4.3 National Urban Policy and Implementation of the Paris Agreement.
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  • 112
    ISBN: 9789811543661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (374 pages)
    Series Statement: Globalization, Urbanization and Development in Africa Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 338.9096
    Keywords: Cultural property-Africa ; Cultural property ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Heritage Challenges in Africa: Contestations and Expectations -- Heritage and Global Trends -- Heritage Challenges in Africa -- The Socioeconomic and Political Pressures -- Legacies of Colonialism -- Relating to Heritage -- Heritage and (Sustainable) Development -- Heritage and Communities -- Structure of the Volume -- References -- Managing Africa's Anthropocene Environment -- Needle in a Haystack? Cultural Heritage Resources in Designated Nature Environments of Southern Africa -- The Dissected Environments of Southern Africa's Protected Areas -- What Constitutes the Haystack? -- Disciplinary Haystack -- Policy Haystack -- Political Haystack -- The Economic Haystack -- Biophysical (Natural) Environment Haystack -- Finding the Needle, Maneuvering the Haystack -- Case Study Findings: Mapping Cultural Values in the Okavango Delta Wetland -- Conclusion: Finding the Cultural Needle in Nature's Haystack -- Policy Suggestions -- References -- African Cultural Heritage and Economic Development: Dancing in the Forests of Time -- Introduction: Framing Heritage Challenges -- Heritage Time -- Indigenizing African Archaeology -- Sustaining Heritage -- Heritage Natures -- Urbanizing Heritage -- Hybrid Heritages -- Conclusion-Broadening Heritage Constituencies -- Policy Suggestions -- References -- Heritage and/or Development-Which Way for Africa? -- Introduction to African Heritages -- Africa and the Development Agenda -- Energy Projects -- Heritage and Development -- Sustainable Development and Heritage Issues -- Resource Exploitation in Africa -- World Heritage and Resource Exploitation -- Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape -- Heritage and Planning Development -- Policy Suggestions -- References -- Communities and the Quotidian.
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  • 113
    ISBN: 9789811540912
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (224 pages)
    Series Statement: Translational Systems Sciences Ser. v.23
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 155.24
    Keywords: Resilience (Personality trait) ; Personality and history ; Human evolution ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Resilient Features Which Humans Inherited from Common Ancestors with Great Apes and Strengthened -- 1.1 Preface -- 1.2 The Characteristics of Primates, Apes, and Humans -- 1.2.1 Heritage of the Primates -- 1.2.2 The Turning Point Between Monkeys and Apes -- 1.2.3 Human Characteristics Inherited from Apes and Food Revolution -- 1.3 Human-Specific Resilience -- 1.3.1 Resilience Toward the Shift in Life History and Shared Childcare -- 1.3.2 Changes in Society and Ways of Communication -- 1.3.3 What Is Human Fundamental Resilience -- References -- Chapter 2: Using Genetics to Understanding the Evolution of Human Resilience -- 2.1 Preface -- 2.2 DNA Analysis Is a Common Method -- 2.3 DNA Database -- 2.4 Genes Related to Personality -- 2.5 Comparison Among Primate Species -- 2.6 Individual Differences in Chimpanzees -- 2.7 Future Personality Research -- 2.8 What Genetic Diversity Shows -- References -- Chapter 3: Individual Differences in Psychological Resilience -- 3.1 What Is Psychological Resilience? -- 3.1.1 Definition of Psychological Resilience -- 3.1.2 Evaluation Criteria of Psychological Resilience -- 3.2 Measurement of Psychological Resiliency -- 3.2.1 Factors Leading to Psychological Resiliency -- 3.2.2 Scale to Measure Resiliency -- 3.3 Changes in Resiliency -- 3.3.1 Relationship with Personality and Developmental Characteristics -- 3.3.2 Changes by Intervention -- 3.4 Viewpoints on Qualitative Diversity of Resilience -- 3.4.1 Diversity of Factors Inducing Resiliency -- 3.4.2 Situation and Context Dependency of Psychological Resilience -- 3.4.3 Diversity of Resilience Orientation -- 3.4.4 Resilience Diversity and Relationship -- References -- Chapter 4: Human Evolution and the Implication of Resilience for the Future -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Who Are We? What Is Human Evolution?.
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  • 114
    ISBN: 9789811567711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (189 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 615.78
    Keywords: Cognition-Effect of drugs on ; Nootropic agents ; Cognition Effect of drugs on ; Electronic books ; Psychopharmakologie ; Nootropikum
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- What Are Cognitive Enhancement Drugs? -- Soft Enhancement -- Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement -- Prevalence Estimates -- Conclusions -- References -- 2: Psychosocial Motivators of "Smart Drug" Use Amongst University Students -- The Prevalence of "Smart Drug" Use Amongst University Students -- Why Do University Students Use "Smart Drugs"? A Review of Psychosocial Motivators for Students' Smart Drug Use -- Improving Academic Performance -- Non-academic Social Reasons for Use -- Common Demographic Risk Factors for Use -- Academic Pressure and Competitiveness -- Social Norms and Social Acceptability of "Smart Drug" Use -- Expectancy Effects -- Motivations for Not Using "Smart Drugs" -- Summary of Motivators of "Smart Drug" Use -- How Can "Smart Drug" Use Be Discouraged Amongst University Student Populations? -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- References -- 3: Nutraceuticals as Cognitive Enhancers -- Introduction -- Ginseng -- Active Constituents -- CNS Mechanisms of Action -- Nitric Oxide (NO) Synthesis -- Neuroprotection -- Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) System Regulation -- Modulation of Neurotransmission -- Human Cognitive Effects Following Acute Administration -- Salvia -- Active Constituents -- CNS Mechanisms of Action -- Amyloid-β Peptide (Aβ) -- Cholinergic Activity -- Neurotrophins -- Human Cognitive Effects Following Acute Administration -- Cocoa Flavanols -- Active Constituents -- CNS Mechanisms of Action -- Neuroprotection -- Blood Flow -- Cognitive Effects Following Acute Administration in Healthy Humans -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Nutritional Interventions to Improve Cognitive Function -- How Many People Use Dietary Supplements for Cognition, and Why? -- Dietary Cognitive Enhancers with Immediate Effects.
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  • 115
    ISBN: 9789811550362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (75 pages)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography Ser.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in geography
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 333.730954
    Keywords: Land use-India ; Land use ; Land use ; Electronic books ; India Population
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  • 116
    ISBN: 9789811540837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (387 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 330.95400000000001
    Keywords: Economic development-India ; Economic development ; Economic development Measurement ; Electronic books
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  • 117
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    Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited
    ISBN: 9789811568244
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (234 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 332.64251
    Keywords: Financialization ; Stock exchanges ; Financialization-China ; Stock exchanges-China ; China-Economic conditions ; Electronic books ; China Economic conditions
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Statement of Authentication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter Outlines -- References -- Chapter 2: The Chinese Genealogy of Financial Expertise -- The Financial Crisis and a Crisis of Expertise -- The Disputed Landing of Foreign Expertise -- China and the Neoliberal Order -- From Aesthetics of Education to Aesthetics of Technocracy -- References -- Chapter 3: Fostering Chinese Talents Abroad: The Paradox of the Returnees (Haigui) -- Introduction -- Fostering Chinese Talent Abroad -- A New Middle Class Governed "at a Distance" -- The Credit/Debt Circuit: From Flexible Citizens to Flexible Haigui -- From Financial Education to Creative Destruction -- References -- Chapter 4: Circuit of Expertise -- A Consolatory Relationship -- Finding a Job in Shanghai -- The Precondition of Circuits -- What Financial Expertise? -- References -- Chapter 5: Shanghai: The Returning City -- A Sympathetic View -- Shanghai Site of Translation and Historical Configuration -- Shanghai as a Site of Social Re-engineering -- Pudong as a Zone -- References -- Chapter 6: The Financialisation Rush -- The Fever -- Investing as a Substitute for an Occupation -- Organising the Chinese Stock Market -- Distinctive Financialisation: The West and China Facing Financial Crisis -- The State, the Dahu and the Scattering Power of the Sanhu -- Sanhu Financial Expertise -- References -- Chapter 7: The Precarious Ecology of Chinese Financial Expertise -- Ecology of Financial Expertise -- From the Fall of the People's State to the Rise of a Financialised State -- Financialisation of the New (Poor) Discontents -- Money: A Social Intruder or Social Unifier? -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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  • 118
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    ISBN: 9789811515064
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (260 pages)
    Series Statement: China Insights Ser.
    Series Statement: China insights
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 338.951
    Keywords: Industrialization ; Industrialization-China ; Electronic books
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  • 119
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    Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited
    ISBN: 9789811557163
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (177 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education Ser. v.11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.231
    Keywords: Social media ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Digital Metamorphosis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Selecting and Introducing the Participants -- 1.3 Dissecting Social Media -- References -- Chapter 2: Defining Social Media…It's Complicated -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Dispelling Some Myths and Moral Panics: What Young People Aren't Doing Online -- 2.3 Understanding 'Social Media' -- 2.4 More than a Feature -- 2.5 How Young People Define Social Media -- 2.6 Implications for Educational Researchers, Policy Makers, and Educators -- References -- Chapter 3: Devices and Technology: How the Way in Which We Access Social Media Affects Our Experiences, Uses, and Identities -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Technically Social -- 3.3 Socio-Cultural Grounded Experiences of Technology: 'Technology Is Neither Good, nor Bad, nor Is it Neutral' -- 3.4 The Medium Is (Part of) the Message: Technology Changing Uses and Experiences of Social Media -- 3.5 Platforms Are Not Universal Across Devices -- 3.6 The Difference Between 'Having' and 'Having Access to' Technology -- 3.7 Implications for Educational Researchers, Policy Makers, and Educators -- References -- Chapter 4: What's 'Social' About Social Media? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 From Networking to Not Working: Accounting for the Array of Online Social Experiences -- 4.3 Uses of Social Media Beyond Content Production Alone -- 4.4 Content Collapse: Negotiating Overlaps in Audiences -- 4.5 Moving Beyond Content Production -- 4.6 Implications for Educational Researchers, Policy Makers, and Educators -- References -- Chapter 5: Enmeshing the User and Design: How Is Identity Managed Online? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Different Platform, Different Design Features, and Different Social Performances of Identity -- 5.3 The Use of Third-Party Apps to Augment Design and the Effects of This Upon Social Interaction.
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  • 120
    ISBN: 9789811534058
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (314 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 959.804
    Keywords: Indonesia-Social conditions ; Electronic books ; Indonesia Social conditions
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  • 121
    ISBN: 9789811531965
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (244 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Series of Sport in Asia Ser.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Series of Sport in Asia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.095
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Ethnology-Asia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Sports in the Era of Globalization -- Prologue -- Identity Politics and Global Sports Fandom -- Nationalism/Nation-State and Global Sports Fandom -- Glocalization and Global Sports Fandom -- Internet Ethnography and Global Sports Fandom -- Conducting Internet Ethnography: A Personal Journey -- Chapter Outline -- References -- Part I Sports Governmentality: Glocalization of American Sports in South Korea -- 2 Sport and Crisis of Nation Under Globalization -- Nationalism as a Hegemonic Ideology in South Korea -- Colonial Experience and the Division of the Country in the Twentieth Century -- Developmental Nationalism as Hegemonic Ideology -- The Crisis of Nation-State During the Asian Economic Crisis -- Structural Transformation Under the IMF Intervention -- Shifts of Governmental Power and Roles -- Crisis and Survival of Nationalism During the Economic Crisis -- Survival of Nationalism During the Economic Crisis -- The Fever Pitch of American Sports in South Korea -- References -- 3 Glocalization of Sports from Above: A Korean Baseball Player as a National Individual -- New Mediascape and the Globalization of U.S. Sports in South Korea -- New Telecommunication Technology: Cable, Satellite TV, and the Internet -- Restructuring the Broadcasting Business -- A New Strategy for Globalizing U.S. Sports -- Governmentality and MLB Broadcasting -- Government Engagement with the MLB Fandom in South Korea -- Representing a Sport Celebrity as a National Individual -- A Self-Governing Individual -- Economic Success in Global Competition -- New Ethic of Being Responsible for Family and Nation-State -- The National Individual: A New Kind of Citizenship -- References -- 4 Glocalization of Sports from Below: Online Communities Among Korean MLB Fans.
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  • 122
    ISBN: 9789811552540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (173 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 394.120954
    Keywords: Food-Social aspects-India ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Food Fads: Food and Public Culture -- Part II: Narrating Nourriture: Food in Literature -- Part III: Visual Victuals: Food in Film, Animation and Comic Strips -- Part IV: Of the Colonial and the Culinary: Food, the Folk and Registers of Resistance -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Part IFood Fads: Food and Public Culture -- 1 Food Substitutes, Health Supplements and the Geist of Fitness -- Introduction -- Theorizing the Consumptive Body -- Fitness, Gyms and Health Supplements -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Fast Food and Fatness in Popular Media: Interrogating the Link -- Fast Food as a Convenient Target -- "You Can't Deny These Links": Super Size Me and American Anxiety -- "Burger Kids" Versus Traditional Diets: Fast Food and Nostalgia in News Media About India -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IINarrating Nourriture: Food in Literature -- 3 Accio FOOD!: Food and Its Magical Properties in Cartoons and Fantasy Literature -- References -- 4 Who Eats Whom?: Transcending the Real Purpose Behind Food Events in Children's Literature (If Any!) Through Nonsense Literature -- Literary Nonsense: Beginnings, Content and Intent -- (Literary) Nonsense and India -- Reading the Texts -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 What Do You Want for Dinner, Honey?: The Subversive Power of Food -- References -- 6 Food, Love and the Self in Indian Women's Poetry in English -- References -- 7 Food for Thought-Feeling: Studying Taste's Affective Function in Bulbul Sharma's The Anger of Aubergines -- References -- Part IIIVisual Victuals: Food in Film, Animation and Comic Strips -- 8 "Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes": The Gastromythology of The Godfather Trilogy -- The Rasas We Cannot Refuse -- The History and Hermeneutics of Gastromythology -- Fasts and Fratricides -- Conclusion -- References.
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  • 123
    ISBN: 9789811555428
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (181 pages)
    Series Statement: Perspectives on Children and Young People Ser. v.11
    Series Statement: Perspectives on children and young people Volume 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.60835
    Keywords: Social groups ; Electronic books
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  • 124
    ISBN: 9789811514357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (568 pages)
    Series Statement: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives Ser. v.42
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Regional economics ; Regional economics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Endorsement -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Overview of the Book -- References -- Part I: Fundamental Issues -- Chapter 2: Expanding the Content of Regional Science: Risks and Rewards, an Essay -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Academic Influences: Past and Possible -- 2.3 Risks and Rewards -- 2.4 Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 3: Is Regional Science Just Economics with a ``dij´´ Added to All Equations? Some Thoughts of an Economist -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Why Separate Out Areas of Study? -- 3.3 Historical Context -- 3.4 Defining Regions -- 3.5 A ``Science´´ or What? -- 3.6 The ``New Regional Economics´´ and ``New Urban Economics´´ -- 3.7 Replication and Meta-Analysis -- 3.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Sustainability and Resilience Through Micro-scale Decisions for Change -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Context -- 4.3 Spatial Analytics -- 4.4 Micro-scale Decisions for Change -- 4.5 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Residency, Race, and the Right to Public Employment -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Background -- 5.3 Analysis -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Humanitarian Local and Regional Economic Development: A Potential Answer to Sustainability and Conflict Prevention ... -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Local and Regional Development -- 6.3 Conflict in Local and Regional Development: Causes and Implications -- 6.4 Sustainability and Regional Development -- 6.5 Information and Computing Technology and Regional Development -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks and Future Directions for Research -- References -- Chapter 7: Regional Policy Analysis in the Era of Spatial Big Data -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Changing Spatial Data Landscape -- 7.3 Overview of Opportunities and Challenges -- 7.4 Regional Policy Analysis Methods and Spatial Big Data -- 7.4.1 Spatial Econometrics and Statistical Modeling.
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