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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031375224
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 374 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Moral development.
    Abstract: Part 1: What is Empathy? -- 1: A Brief Historical Reconstruction -- 2: The Way to a Definition -- 3: A Taxonomy of Empathy -- 4: Conclusions to Part 1 -- Part 2: Empathy and Morality -- 5: Anti-Empathism -- 6: The Bright Side of Empathy -- 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in order to capture the essence of the empathic phenomenon and clearly distinguish it from other similar emotional phenomena such as sympathy or compassion The second part focuses on the role that this phenomenon can play on the ethical-moral level. The question is whether empathy is necessary or at least important for morality, and if so, to what extent, in what way and for what reasons. This is an open access book.
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  • 2
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031386770
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 210 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social service. ; Social service ; Community development.
    Abstract: Part 1. Complex practice in a complex world -- 1. Introduction: social work in a changing context -- 2. The strengths and limitations of social work -- 3. Becoming a complexity thinker: towards an epistemology of social work practice -- 4. Thinking complexity and acting pragmatically -- Part 2. Thinking complexity in practice -- 5. Early doing and thinking complexity: the Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative -- 6. Thinking complexity across fields of practice: children and older people -- 7. Thinking complexity in management -- 8. Thinking complexity in community development -- 9. Thinking complexity in hospital social work practice -- Part 3. Thinking complexity in Policy, Research and Education -- 10. Thinking complexity in public policy -- 11. Thinking complexity in research -- 12. Thinking complexity in social work education and professional practice -- 13. Next steps: what do we know about thinking complexity and acting pragmatically in social work?.
    Abstract: This textbook provides a grounding in complexity theory, demonstrating how it can influence and shape social work interventions in policy, management, and practice, as well as forming an epistemological and methodological basis for research. It provides a contemporary theoretical basis for social work practice, equipping social workers to work in a 21st-Century world. The authors argue that the history of social work demonstrates the profession's engagement with the social and structural problems of each era since its emergence 150 years ago. However, in the 21st Century, such things as globalisation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change have highlighted that existing theories and practice models are insufficient to the task of working with the complicatedness of contemporary life in a fast-changing world. Distilling the central tenets of Complexity Theory and the notion of complex adaptive systems in partnership with pragmatism, the book provides practice perspectives and guidelines which build on social work's enduring commitment to understanding the person-in-context. The recognition that social workers require conceptual and theoretical agility to work across micro, meso and macro 'levels' remains central, but the argument is made that their focus and practice must primarily be at the meso level. The authorship of combined academic and practice expertise enables such perspectives to be brought to life through the theoretical and practical analysis of conceptual and 'real-world' challenges. The book consists of 13 chapters organized in three sections: Part I: Complex Practice in a Complex World Part II: Thinking Complexity in Practice Part III: Thinking Complexity in Public Policy, Research and Education Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice encourages social workers to 'think complexity' and 'act pragmatically'. It is intended for final-year social work students; academics and researchers working in a range of disciplines, primarily in the social work field but also in the areas of sociology, psychology and anthropology; and practitioners in policy, research, management and practice settings. .
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  • 3
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031307843
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXX, 656 p. 28 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern ; Literature. ; Emigration and immigration. ; World history.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Narrating Migration in the Settler Colonies: Recent Climate Fiction in Australia and New Zealand -- Chapter 3: Invasion and Replacement Fantasies: Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints and the French Far Right -- Chapter 4: Between History and the Discord of Time: The Figure of the Migrant in A Seventh Man and Transit -- Chapter 5: A Border Poetics of Migration: Five Mappings of Migration Literature in Norwegian and Swedish -- Chapter 6: "A Strangely Familiar Place”: Cinematic (Re)framings of the EU’s Easternmost Border. Chapter 7: Migration, Romani Writers, and the Question of National Literatures. Chapter 8: Introduction -- Chapter 9: Setting the Stage of Contemporary Migration in the Italian Hostile Environment. Chapter 10: The Dystopian Imaginary, Climate Migration, and “Lifeboat-Nationalism”. Chapter 11: Black Parisians in Merry Colors: Queerness and Creolisation in the Popular Comedies of Lucien Jean-Baptiste -- Chapter 12: Classification and the Secrets of Kinship: Migration, Scientific Naturalism, and the Racialization of Blood in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 13: “There’s ways to survive these times… and I think one way is the shape the telling takes”: Hostile Environments and Hospitable Connections in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet -- Chapter 14: Introduction -- Chapter 15: Migration, Forced Displacement, and Aesthetic Agency: Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum. Chapter 16: Comparing Migrations? Russian German Jewish Writers on the “Refugee Crisis”. Chapter 17: Literary Archives and Alternative Futures. Memories of Labor Migration in Contemporary Turkish German Fiction. Chapter 18: On the Afterlife of Lucrecia Pérez: Literature and Migrant Memory against Nationalist Myth-Making in Democratic Spain. Chapter 19: On the Afterlife of Lucrecia Pérez: Literature and Migrant Memory against Nationalist Myth-Making in Democratic Spain. Chapter 20: Muslim Interpellation: Hijabs, Beards, and the Post-9/11 Border Regime. Chapter 21: Another Home. Chapter 22: Introduction -- Chapter 23: “Struggles with Identity Don’t Care about Latitude”: Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft (Where You Come From) as “Born Translated” Text -- Chapter 24: Verstummung”: Carmine Abate’s Dislocative Voices -- Chapter 25: Going for Nothing: Migration and Translation in Christina Rivera Garza -- Chapter 26: “Life Goes on, Defying Common Sense”: On Translating Russian Émigré Poetry -- Chapter 27: "It is hard to choose": An Italian Author on Migration, Diaspora, African Literature, and the Limits of Labels -- Chapter 28: Poetry as Love and Resistance -- Chapter 29: Introduction -- Chapter 30: Sound in Place: Italian Migrant Street Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel -- Chapter 31: Restorying the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange and the Partition of India and Palestine through Graphic Narrative: Hand-drawn Lines, Embroidered Histories, Portable Homelands -- Chapter 32: “Resonance is Contact Ripple”: Media and Contemporary Poems of Mediterranean Migration. Chapter 33: Ways of Seeing: Ethics of Looking in Refugee Films after 2015 -- Chapter 34: Curating Hospitality: Towards a More Sensitive Perception of Vulnerability -- Chapter 35: Introduction -- Chapter 36: Reading the Politics of Exile: Matei Vișniec’s Mr. K Released -- Chapter 37: Hassan Blasim’s God 99: Staying with Fragments, Designing Other Worlds -- Chapter 38: Melancholia of Migration in the Transnational Italian Imaginary -- Chapter 39: “not safe any where anymore”: Biopolitical Poetics and Irish Migration Poetry -- Chapter 40: “a historian of the soft tissue”: An Interview with Bhanu Kapil. .
    Abstract: The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization. .
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  • 4
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031393181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 279 p. 19 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theater. ; Theater ; World politics. ; World War, 1939-1945.
    Abstract: Chapter-1: Introduction -- Part One: Dramaturgical Contexts: Institutionalised Ideologies -- Chapter 2 - Institutional Dramaturgy at Deutsches Theater Berlin - Ann-Christine Simke -- Chapter 3 - National Dramaturg Rainer Schlösser and German Theatre after 1933 - Gerwin Strobl -- Chapter 4 - Implementing Germanic Repertoires – Institutional Dramaturgy during WWII - Anselm Heinrich -- Chapter 5 - Brecht’s Performance Theories in Post- war Germany - Ramona Mosse -- Chapter 6 - Cold War Dramaturgies: Institution and Ideology in 1950s German Theatre - Michael Bachmann -- Part Two: Institutional Infrastructures: Theatres of Oppression -- Chapter 7 - Theatre Poznań/Posen (Poland) - Alexander Weigel -- Chapter 8 - Theatre Maribor/Marburg (Slovenia) - Matjaz Birk -- Chapter 9 - Theatre in Prague - Volker Mohn -- Chapter 10 - Theatre in Oslo - Anselm Heinrich -- Part Three: Performance Practice: Dramaturgy and the Aesthetics of War- Chapter 11 - In the Open Air: Shell Shock Theatre - Evelyn Annuss -- Chapter 12 - Berlin – Amsterdam – Westerbork: Revue and the Aesthetics of War: Veronika Zangl -- Chapter 13 - Theatre under the NS regime in Austria: Theatrical activities in Crisis Situations - Brigitte Dalinger -- Chapter 14 - Spanish classical theatre during Third Reich - John London. .
    Abstract: This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through wide-ranging case studies, it discusses the way in which operationalised modes of action, legal frameworks and an established profession have shaped dramaturgical practice and thus links to current debates around the “institutional turn” in theatre and performance studies. German theatre represents a rich and well-chosen field as it is here where the role of the dramaturg was first created and where dramaturgy played a significantly politicised role in the changing political systems of the 20th century. The volume represents an important addition to a growing field of work on dramaturgy by contributing to a historical contextualisation of current practice. In doing so, it understands dramaturgy not only as a process which occurs in rehearsal rooms and writers’ studies, but one that has far wider institutional and political implications. Anselm Heinrich is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include Entertainment, Education, Propaganda (2007), Theater in der Region (2012), Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation (2017), and a volume on Ruskin, The Theatre, and Victorian Visual Culture (2009). He is currently under contract for a monograph on theatre in Britain during WWII. He has held research fellowships at Harvard, Oxford and Marburg. Ann-Christine Simke is a Lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland. She recently published the article “Forensic Architecture in the Theatre and the Gallery: A Reflection on Counter hegemonic Potentials and Pitfalls of Art Institutions” (with Anika Marschall, 2022) and is currently under contract for a co-authored (with Anika Marschall) book on intersectional theatre practices.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9783031414015
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 287 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in organizations. ; Sustainability. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Communication for Development and Sustainable Social Change in Africa -- Chapter 2: Anchoring Participatory Communication in South Africa’s Municipal Citizen Participation During Integrated Development Planning (IDP) Processes -- Chapter 3: Participatory communication for sustainable development: A study of the Access project in Ghana -- Chapter 4: A theoretical framework towards mutual sustainability communication -- Part 2: Strategic Communication in Governance, Planning and Policy Reforms -- Chapter 5: Exploration of the accentuated value of Strategic Communication Management for Inclusive Citizenry Engagement through governance and sustainability -- Chapter 6: Network Governance as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development on the African Continent -- Chapter 7: Communication Strategies for Community Development: A Study of World Bank SEEFOR-CDDS projects in Ukwa East communities, Abia State, Nigeria -- Part 3: Communication for Social Change, Bottom-up Development and Social Movements in Africa -- Chapter 8: The role of the Sudanese Professionals Association in the Revolution of 2019 towards development and social change -- Chapter 9: Invited and Invented Spaces of Public Participation in South African Local Government: The study of community engagement practices and service delivery protests -- Chapter 10: Movement communication practices of students & the poor: The political economy of communication -- Part 4: Cases Studies in applied Strategic Communication, Development, Social Change and Electoral Reform -- Chapter 11: Public health Communication and Growth -- Chapter 12: Using Digital Technologies in Community Radio to Promote Social Change in Kenya -- Chapter 13: Dwindling Voters’ Turnout and Citizenship Participation: A Political Market Orientation Analysis of Nigeria’s 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections -- Chapter 14: The Arena Model as a basis for communication strategy formulation for the National Development Plan -- Chapter 15: Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change. It draws insights from scholars across the African continent by unravelling the complementary nature of scholarship between the two fields, through the lens of prevailing governance and sustainability challenges facing African countries, today. This edited volume covers issues that have adversely affected the achievement of goals related to humanitarian upliftment, development and social change for all African nations. Consequently, citizen participation, which lies at the heart of these challenges when considering the question of sustainable governance and policy development for social change in an African context is addressed. To this end, a reflection is also made on various case studies that exist where local citizens do not inform sustainable development programmes, while the promotion of bottom-up development and social change is largely replaced by top-down instrumental action approaches and hemispheric communication instead of strategic communication. Themes explored include: ● Communication for social change, bottom-up development and social movements in the local government sphere ● Strategic communication in governance, planning and policy reforms ● The role of multi-stakeholder partnerships in achieving development of objectives geared towards good governance in Africa ● Public participation, protests, and resistance from 'below' ● Public sector health communications and development ● Media relations, accountability and contested development narratives with the Fourth Estate ● Social media and eParticipation in government development programs. Tsietsi Mmutle is Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria in the department of Business Management, he teaches Strategic Communication Management modules at honours and Masters level in the Communication Management unit. Tshepang B. Molale is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, specializing in communication for development and social change. Olanrewaju Olugbenga Akinola lectures in the Mass Communication department of the Olabisi Onbanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigera. Olebogeng Selebi completed her PhD in Communication Management from the University of Pretoria. She was the host of the first Nobel Prize Dialogue event ever to take place on African soil.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031349027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 282 p. 15 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The New Antiquity
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    Keywords: Poetry. ; Classical literature. ; Literature, Ancient. ; Literature, Modern ; European literature. ; History, Ancient.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- Part I: Cavafy Reads a Coin -- 2 A golden coin? -- 3 How to read a coin portrait in the early 1900s -- 4 What is a ‘poet-historian’? -- Part II: Cavafy Reads Inscriptions -- 5 ‘Caesarion’ as palimpsest -- 6 ‘In the month of Athyr’: Leucius and his friends -- Part III: Looking at Antiquity from Inside the Empire -- 7 Imperial desires -- 8 A Hellenistic Empire -- 9 How to read Cavafy inside the British Empire.
    Abstract: "Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities is a fascinating and meticulous study of how the Greek poet breathes life into artefacts and textual fragments from the classical past. Kayalis delves deeply into the poems in order to lay bare the extraordinary complexity that hides beneath the surface. His book shows that modern poetry, modern homosexuality and even British imperialism were shaped by encounters with Hellenistic culture." – Stefano Evangelista, Professor of English, University of Oxford "Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities offers an original critique of the poet as a belated antiquarian by redefining his archaeological poetics and aligning them with his Anglophilia and colonial positionality. Kayalis’s revisionist appraisal of Cavafy’s historicism presents compelling new readings of signature poems and forges new connections to overlooked homoerotic and popular sources. A brilliant contribution to Cavafy studies." – Peter Jeffreys, Associate Professor of English, Suffolk University This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy's historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities. Takis Kayalis is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He has published extensively on nineteenth-century prose and modernist poetry and co-edited Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning (2010) and Cavafy as World Literature (forthcoming). In 2019 he co-curated the Cavafy Archive’s Digital Collection (Onassis Foundation).
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    ISBN: 9783031368721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 242 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Environmental policy. ; Emigration and immigration ; Environmental Law. ; America ; Social justice.
    Abstract: Part I: Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice -- Chapter 1: Pulling at the Thread -- Chapter 2: Property Law and Its Contradictions -- Part II: Proof of Harm -- Chapter 3: Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities -- Chapter 4: Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action -- Chapter 5: Displacing a Right to Act Communally within Community Relocation -- Chapter 6: Precarious Possessors and “the Right to (rebuilding) the City” -- Chapter 7: Interrogating “Just Compensation” and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska -- Part III: The Legal Framework -- Chapter 8: A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools that Structure Relocation -- Chapter 9: Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law -- Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts.
    Abstract: This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change. Alessandra Jerolleman is Associate Professor of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, USA. Elizabeth Marino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University, USA. Nathan Jessee is Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA. Liz Koslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA. Chantel Comardelle, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Tribal Secretary and Curator. Melissa Villarreal is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, USA. Daniel de Vries is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Simon Manda is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Leeds, UK.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031406546
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 329 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Motion pictures ; Economic history.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Financial Gaze -- 3. Film and Financial Ethics -- 4. Film and Financial Time -- 5. Film and 6. Financial Space -- 7. Film and Financial Performance -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Using frameworks from contemporary philosophy and critical finance studies, the book explores how contemporary cinema has registered recent financial and economic issues. The book focuses on how filmmakers have found formal means to explore, celebrate, and critique the increasingly important role that the financial sector plays in shaping global economic, political, ethical, and social life. Alasdair King is Reader in Film in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Writing, Media, Democracy (2007).
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    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. .
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    ISBN: 9783031441233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIV, 359 p. 17 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: International economic relations. ; International relations.
    Abstract: Part 1 cancer in pandemic times -- Chapter 1 - the cancer care challenge in the light of pandemic experience -- Chapter 2 - broken supply chains and local manufacturing innovation: responses to covid-19 and their implications for policy -- Part 2 the cancer care experience in east Africa -- Chapter 3 - the social pain of cancer in east africa: understanding need -- Chapter 4: access to cancer care: navigating the maze -- Chapter 5 - beyond ‘late presentation’: explaining delayed cancer diagnosis in east Africa -- Part 3 local industry and cancer care in india and east Africa -- Chapter 6 - cupboard full, cupboard empty: the industrial building blocks of covid-19 and cancer systems -- Chapter 7- manufacturing for cancer care in east africa: raising the ambition -- Chapter 8 - oncology drug production in sub-saharan africa: the challenge and opportunity, with evidence from india -- Part 4 - industrial innovation and industrial policy -- Chapter 9 - emerging business models in cancer diagnostic startups in india and lessons for african countries -- Chapter 10 - realistic ambitions: technology transfer for biologics platform technologies -- Chapter 11 - palliation economics: the industrial organization of morphine in india -- Part 5 - tackling institutional gaps: using scenarios -- Chapter 12 innovation and policy in cancer pain management: systemic interactions in Tanzania -- Chapter 13 - using scenarios to support innovation and mutual linkages -- Chapter 14- conclusion: better cancer care and greater local health security: lessons, opportunities and ways forward.
    Abstract: “This is a book whose time has come. Covid-19 should have forced a fundamental shift in thinking around the way African healthcare systems are organised, and how and where they procure essential health commodities. I recommend this book for every African policy maker, parliamentarian, opposition politician, financier, and especially for the political champions and civil servants in the Ministries of Health, Finance, Trade and Industry, Science and Education across the African continent.” --Dr Skhumbuzo Ngozwana, President & CEO Kiara Health; Board Chairman Biovac; Board Member, Federation of African Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, South Africa This open access edited volume focuses on the scope and benefits of strengthening local industrial-health linkages. The Covid-19 pandemic collapsed international supply chains for health. That experience brought home to African policy makers the critical nature of local manufacturing capabilities for sustaining and strengthening health care, and highlighted the pandemic benefits of India’s much stronger industrial base. At that time, a network of researchers in East Africa, India and the UK were investigating how to address the crisis of cancer care in low-resource health systems. Their project, uniquely, focused on the scope and benefits of strengthening local industrial-health linkages. The project researchers were also drawn into the pressing demands of Covid19 response. The result is this very timely book. The authors link their research on cancer to pandemic experience, and they draw sharp lessons for how countries can enhance their populations’ health security. The authors argue that improving cancer care is crucial for human wellbeing and more inclusive health care. They challenge policy makers to bring together health needs, health innovations and improved industrial capabilities to embed better cancer care and broader health system improvement in local industrial innovation and development. Geoffrey Banda is Senior Lecturer, Science Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) Department, University of Edinburgh, UK Maureen Mackintosh is Emeritus Professor of Economics, Open University, UK Mercy Karimi Njeru is Research Scientist, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kenya. Smita Srinivas is Founder, the Technological Change Lab and holds Visiting and Honorary Professorial appointments at the OU and UCL. Fortunata Songora Makene is Executive Director, Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Tanzania.
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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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    ISBN: 9783031368950
    Language: English
    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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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031475719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 227 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Journalism. ; Communication in economic development. ; Diplomacy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Australia’s voice in the Indo-Pacific: why transnational broadcasts are vital -- Chapter 2 The Indo Pacific's broadcast landscape, its strategic, military value -- Chapter 3 Distribution via Shortwave, Satellites and Social Media -- Chapter 4 Broadcast Voices in the Indo-Pacific -- Chapter 5 The rise of China’s international broadcasting services -- Chapter 6 Diplomacy, propaganda, and journalism in the digital landscape -- Chapter 7 Social and mobile media in times of disaster -- Chapter 8 Fact-checking and Verification: The changing role of professional journalists -- Chapter 9 A case study of media tensions in the Solomon Islands, China and Australia -- Chapter 10 The Future and Funding of Transnational Broadcasting and Soft Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific.
    Abstract: “This book makes a significant contribution to knowledge about media in the Indo-Pacific, a region where trustworthy information is fundamental to securing peace inside and beyond the boundary. Wake and her fellow authors examine how the many different news ecosystems are facing the challenges brought about by social media, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation.” —Prof Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland “Almost every Australian knows about the ABC, and has an opinion about it. Far fewer know much about the ABC’s role to broadcast into countries in the Indo-Pacific region. Wake is an expert in this field who is able to draw on her experience working at the ABC and buttress it with reflection and scholarship. She has brought together a team of leading contributors to explore the urgent need to adequately fund international broadcasting.” —Prof Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo-Pacific brings together research spanning journalism, broadcast and political science to interrogate the issues arising from a rapidly changing global political and broadcast environment. This book asks: Why is there increasing interest in the provision of English-language media in the Indo-Pacific from countries like China? What are the implications for the traditional providers of foreign-produced news such as the Australia Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation? What now is the role of social media in the creation of broadcast journalism, and why is there panic in diplomatic circles about some of the journalism that originates from broadcasters in China and Russia? The result is a book that offers an insight into a rapidly transforming media landscape, the changing state of international relations, and the rise of new powers. Alexandra Wake is an Associate Professor in Journalism in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. She is the elected President of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. Before becoming an academic, she worked as a senior journalist and editor with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031321344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 277 p. 46 illus., 36 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
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    Keywords: Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.). ; Arts. ; Culture
    Abstract: INTRODUCTION.-PART 1: INTERACTIONS AND EXPANDED FIELDS -- CHAPTER 1 Dave McKean: “One plus one equals three” -- CHAPTER 2 Kate Newell: “Illustration and Adaptation in the Balbussos’ Pride and Prejudice (2013) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2012)” -- CHAPTER 3 Kamilla Elliott, “Ad-app-tive illustration: Alice for the iPad”.-PART 2: AFTERLIVES -- CHAPTER 4 Nathalie Collé, “‘[T]o mix colours for painters’ and illustrate and adapt Gulliver’s Travels worldwide: street murals, adaptability and transmediality” -- CHAPTER 5Ann Lewis, “Adapting Novel Illustration for the Almanac: Text/Image Relations in Chodowiecki’s Illustrations for Rousseau’s Julie” -- CHAPTER 6 Chris Louttit, “‘Alternative Dickens’: The Graphic Adaptation of the Inimitable in The New Yorker”.-PART 3: BEYOND ILLUSTRATION -- CHAPTER 7David Pinho Barros, “Drawing from Ozu: An intermedial consideration on clear line illustrations based on clear line film frames” -- CHAPTER 8 Julie LeBlanc, “Ekphrasis, illustration and adaptation: Annie Ernaux’s intermedial autobiographic and photographic production” -- CHAPTER 9Hélène Martinelli, “The ‘Great Image-Maker’ or the animation of illustrations in Karel Zeman’s Deadly Invention”.-PART 4: ILLUSTRATION AND TRANSCULTURAL ADAPTATION -- CHAPTER 10 Carol Adlam, “The Bobrov Affair: Creating a Graphic Novel Adaptation of a ‘Lost’ Russian-Empire Crime Novel” -- CHAPTER 11 Xavier Giudicelli, “Adapting, Translating, Illustrating: French Ballads of Reading Gaol in Word and Image” -- CHAPTER 12 Miriam Vieira, “What if the Grimms had been born in Brazil? The case of (illustrated) adaptations” -- CHAPTER 13 Camila Augusta Pires de Figueiredo: “The transcultural adaptation of The Little Prince to Brazilian cordel literature”.
    Abstract: This collection examines the relationship between illustration and adaptation from an intermedial and transcultural perspective. It aims to foster a dialogue between two fields that co-exist without necessarily acknowledging advances in each other’s domains, providing an argument for defining illustration as a form of adaptation, as well as an intermedial practice that redefines what we mean by adaptation. The volume embraces both a specific and an extended definition of illustration that accounts for its inclusion among the web of adaptive practices that developed with the rise of new media and intermediality. The contributors explore how crossovers may contribute to reappraise their objects, and rely on a transmedial and interdisciplinary corpus exploring the boundaries between illustration and other media such as texts, graphic novels, comics, theatre, film and mobile applications. Arguably adaptation, like intermediality, is an umbrella term that covers a variety of practices and products, and both of them have been shaped by intense debates over their boundaries and internal definitions. Illustration belongs to each of these areas, and this volume proposes insight into how illustration not only relates to adaptation and intermediality but how each field is redefined, enriched and also challenged by such interactions. Shannon Wells-Lassagne has worked extensively on film and television adaptation. She is the author of Television and Serial Adaptation, and the editor of Adapting Margaret Atwood (Palgrave), Adapting Endings, as well as of special issues of The Journal of Screenwriting, Interfaces, and TV/Series, Screen and Series. Sophie Aymes works on intermediality, modernist book history and illustration in 20th-century Britain. She has co-edited several word-and-image journal issues (inInterfaces and Image [&] Narrative), volumes on illustration (series Book Practices and Textual Itineraries), and a collection on Art and Science in Word and Image.
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    ISBN: 9783031353789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 580 p. 257 illus., 231 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Telecommunication. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Neural networks (Computer science).
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part 1: Type-1 Fuzzy Sets and Systems -- Short Primers on Type-1 Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic -- Type-1 Fuzzy Logic Systems -- Part 2: Type-2 Fuzzy Sets -- Sources of Uncertainty -- Type-2 Fuzzy Sets -- Operations on and Properties OF Type-2 Fuzzy Sets -- Type-2 Relations and Compositions -- Centroid of a Type-2 Fuzzy Set: Type-Reduction -- Part 3: Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems -- Mamdani Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems (IT2 FLSS) -- TSK Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems -- General Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems (GT2 FLSS) -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: The third edition of this textbook presents a further updated approach to fuzzy sets and systems that can model uncertainty — i.e., “type-2” fuzzy sets and systems. The author demonstrates how to overcome the limitations of classical fuzzy sets and systems, enabling a wide range of applications, from time-series forecasting to knowledge mining to classification to control and to explainable AI (XAI). This latest edition again begins by introducing classical (type-1) fuzzy sets and systems, and then explains how they can be modified to handle uncertainty, leading to type-2 fuzzy sets and systems. New material is included about how to obtain fuzzy set word models that are needed for XAI, similarity of fuzzy sets, a quantitative methodology that lets one explain in a simple way why the different kinds of fuzzy systems have the potential for performance improvements over each other, and new parameterizations of membership functions that have the potential for achieving even greater performance for all kinds of fuzzy systems. For hands-on experience, the book provides information on accessing MATLAB, Java, and Python software to complement the content. The book features a full suite of classroom material.
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    ISBN: 9783031475085
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 670 p. 268 illus., 225 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1453
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Towards Reinforcement Learning for Non-Stationary Environments -- Detection of Cyberbullying on Social Media Platforms using Machine Learning -- The Changing Landscape of Machine Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Centralized Machine Learning, Distributed Machine Learning and Federated Machine Learning -- Privacy and Security Landscape of Metaverse -- Strategies to Apply Genetic Programming Directly to the Traveling Salesman Problem -- A Comparative Analysis of GPT-3 and BERT Models for Text-based Emotion Recognition: Performance, Efficiency, and Robustness -- An Intrusion Detection System using the XGBoost Algorithm for SDVN -- Hybridizing L´evy Flights and Cartesian Genetic Programming for Learning Swarm-based Optimization -- An Evaluation of Handwriting Digit Recognition using Multilayer SAM Spiking Neural Network -- Towards Accurate Rainfall Volume Prediction: An Initial Approach with Deep Learning, Advanced Feature Selection, Parameter Optimisation, and Ensemble Techniques for Time-Series Forecasting.
    Abstract: This book comprises the papers presented at the 22nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2023), held at Aston University, Birmingham, the UK, during 6 to 8 September 2023. UKCI is the flagship AI conference of the UK and Europe held annually. In UKCI 2023, a total of 63 papers were received from 11 countries including the UK, India, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, Italy, Thailand, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia; of these, 50 were accepted for presentation. The review process was rigorous, wherein three reviews were provided for all papers, with some having four reviews. This book highlights the latest research developments in computational intelligence and its applications. It covers both conventional and advanced techniques in fuzzy systems, neural networks, evolutionary computation, machine learning, deep learning, federated learning, data mining, cognitive computing, intelligent robotics, optimization methods, hybrid methods, and applications of computational intelligence. The book offers a valuable reference guide for readers with expertise in computational intelligence or who are seeking a comprehensive and timely review of the latest trends in computational intelligence. Special emphasis is placed on novel methods and their use in a wide range of application areas, updating both academics and professionals on the state of the art.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031494918
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 313 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Education ; Social sciences ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science ; Political science
    Abstract: 1. Bad Philosophy, the Climate Crisis, and other Global Problems -- 2. Bad Academic Philosophy Responsible for Global Problems -- 3. The Post-Cartesian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Philosophy as Critical Fundamentalism -- 4. The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism -- 5. The Post-Enlightenment Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Academic Inquiry so as to Become Rationally Devoted to Helping Humanity Create a Civilized World -- 6. What We Need to Do -- 7. Appendix 1 How to Solve Hume’s Problem of Induction -- 8. Appendix 2 How Aim-Oriented Empiricism Would Benefit Science.
    Abstract: Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to the basic humanitarian aim of helping to promote human welfare, academic inquiry must, in the first instance, seek knowledge and technological know-how. First, knowledge is to be acquired; once acquired, it can be applied to help promote human welfare. But this philosophy of knowledge-inquiry is an intellectual and humanitarian disaster. It violates three of the four most elementary rules of rational problem solving conceivable, and as a result fails to give priority to the task of helping humanity resolve those conflicts and problems of living, such as the climate and nature crises, that need to be resolved if we are to make progress to a better world – a world in which there is peace, democracy, justice, liberty, and sustainable prosperity, for all. Very few academics today are aware of this rationality scandal. We urgently need to bring about a revolution in universities around the world, wherever possible, so that academic inquiry puts all four rules of rational problem solving into practice, and becomes rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to make progress towards a better world. Knowledge-inquiry needs to become wisdom-inquiry, rationally devoted to helping humanity create a wiser world. Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader at University College London. He has devoted much of his working life to arguing we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire and apply knowledge. He has published fifteen books on this theme.
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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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    ISBN: 9783031530227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 517 p. 179 illus., 152 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 901
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Education
    Abstract: This book contains papers in the fields of engineering pedagogy education, research in engineering pedagogy, and games in engineering education. The authors are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative and effective ways to respond in a proper way. The pandemic period left us with profound changes in the way we teach and learn, including the massive use of new means of communication, such as videoconferencing and other technological tools. Moreover, the current explosion of artificial intelligence tools, mainly used by students, is challenging teaching practices maintained for centuries. Scientifically based statements as well as excellent best practice examples are absolutely necessary. The 26th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2023), which took place in Madrid, Spain, between September 26 and 30, 2023, was the perfect place where current trends in higher education were presented and discussed. Since its beginning in 1998, this conference has been devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in higher education. Nowadays, the ICL conferences are a forum of the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in learning and engineering pedagogy. In this way, the authors try to bridge the gap between ‘pure’ scientific research and the everyday work of educators. Interested readership includes policy makers, academics, educators, researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, schoolteachers, learning industry, further and continuing education lecturers, etc.
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    ISBN: 9783031418204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 344 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Law, Governance and Technology Series 60
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    Keywords: Information technology ; Mass media ; Law ; Criminal law. ; Data protection.
    Abstract: Legal Developments on Cybersecurity and Related Fields: Introductory notes and presentation -- PART I – CYBERSECURITY, CYBERDEFENCE AND LAW -- Getting critical. Making sense of the EU security framework for cloud providers -- Cyber operations targeting space systems. Legal questions and the context of privatisation -- A legal assessment of the concept of risk in reversible operations through cyber and electronic means -- Knowledge management and continuous improvement in cyberspace -- Information security metrics: challenges and models in an all-digital world -- Cyberterrorism and the Portuguese counter-terrorism act -- PART II – CYBERSECURITY AND LAW: SPECIFIC TOPICS -- Towards cybersecurity regulation of software in the European Union -- The importance of the computer undercover agent as an investigative measure against cybercrime: a special reference to child pornography crimes -- Post-Mortem data protection and succession in digital assets under Spanish law -- The suitability of the regime of technological measures for copyright protection in the face of modern cybersecurity risks -- Digital signatures and quantum computing -- No words needed? Emojis as evidence in judicial proceedings -- PART III – CYBERSECURITY, ETHICS AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS -- Bug bounties: ethical and legal aspects -- Profiling and cybersecurity: a perspective from fundamental rights' protection in the EU -- Legal developments on smart public governance and fundamental rights in the digital age -- Biometric signatures in the context of Regulation (EU) nr. 910/2014 and the general data protection regulation: the evidential value and anonymization of biometric data -- Cybersecurity issues in electronic communications and some insights on digital literacy and technological infrastructures’ demands – anticipations of the European Digital Decade through the lens of a Declaration on digital rights and principles.
    Abstract: This book presents a fresh approach to cybersecurity issues, seeking not only to analyze the legal landscape of the European Union and its Member States, but to do so in an interdisciplinary manner, involving scholars from diverse backgrounds – ranging from legal experts to ICT and engineering professionals. Cybersecurity requirements must be understood in a broader context, encompassing not just conventional aspects, but also emerging topics. This can only be achieved through an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, cybersecurity should be consistently considered in relation to cybercrime and/or cyber defense, while examining it through the lens of specific domains that are intertwined with various legal fields. Moreover, it is crucial to uphold ethical standards and safeguard fundamental rights, particularly regarding personal data protection. By adopting this comprehensive perspective, the significance of cybersecurity in the exercise of public authority becomes apparent. It also plays an essential role in upholding the fundamental values of both individual Member States and the EU as a whole, such as the rule of law. Moreover, it fosters trust, transparency, and effectiveness in market relations and public administration interactions. In turn, the book draws on the expertise of its authors to provide insights into ICT components and technologies. Understanding these elements holistically is essential to viewing every "cyber" phenomenon from a legal standpoint. In addition to the holistic and interdisciplinary approach it presents, the book offers a captivating exploration of cybersecurity and an engaging read for anyone interested in the field.
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    ISBN: 9783031456480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 467 p. 144 illus., 107 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 801
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Engineering ; Application software.
    Abstract: Review of Open Software Bug Datasets -- SERVICIOS WEB CLOUD CON MÓDULO DE DISTRIBUCIÓN (SAAS) Y JAVA -- Static Level Ancestors in Practice -- Virtual Reality Training Platform: a case study for heavy machinery operators in immersive environments -- Digital Twin technologies for immersive virtual reality training environments -- Prototype of the crowdsensing system for pollution monitoring in a smart city based on data streaming -- Transcolar Rural New Route Cost Calculation Software And Cost Analysis Tool -- Agent Team Management Using Distributed Ledger Technology -- AirVA - Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Control with Occupants Alerting System -- A federated algorithm for the lightweight generation of high-entropy keys in distributed computing systems.
    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.
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    ISBN: 9783031456510
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 454 p. 124 illus., 108 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 802
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Engineering ; Application software.
    Abstract: Twitter News Networks: the Story of Portugal and the Philippines -- Multidimensional and Multilingual Emotional Analysis -- Explaining Wikipedia page similarity using network science -- ESG in advertising narratives: Case analysis of Golden Lion winning campaigns at Cannes 2022 -- The digitalization of the event industry – mobile and internet applications as a tool to improve event communication and experiences: A case study of a French event app start-up -- A Digital Marketing Plan for a Pateo House in Alentejo -- Integrating online and offline distribution strategies – a Portuguese case study -- The city makes its mark in a review on digital communication and citizenship -- The Influence of In-store Music on the Consumer's Shopping Experience -- Marketing Plan for an Online Business: A Case Study.
    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.
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    ISBN: 9783031510670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 185 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Law, Governance and Technology Series 64
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    Keywords: Information technology ; Mass media ; Artificial intelligence. ; Sustainability.
    Abstract: Part I Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development -- An Assessment of the Role of Artificial Intelligence on Sustainable Development Goals -- Sustainable Growth and the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Improving the Circular Economy -- Part II Blockchain for Sustainable Development: the Potential of Tokenization -- Token, Tokenization and Sustainable Development -- Tokenization of the creative industries: the intersection between emerging technologies and sustainability -- Part III The Green Digital Transformation: Legal Issues -- The Importance of a Global Legal Framework and Digital Technologies in Combating Climate Change -- Green Finance in the EU and Russia: Legal Frameworks and Opportunities of Digitalisation -- Part IV Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies -- Fast Internet as a Prerequisite for Sustainable and Resilient Development: Network expansion measures and extension of user rights -- The Right to Education in a Digital Era -- Part V Challenges in achieving SDG 16 -- Corporations and the global backlash over privacy: too big to regulate? -- E-justice in Russia.
    Abstract: Digital technologies are playing a growing role in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They are both a tool both for achieving developmental outcomes and a driver of change. However, the use of digital technologies also entails certain legal challenges. The purpose of this book is to highlight these challenges and suggest solutions. Written by leading researchers from six countries, who analyse legislative solutions from around the world, it includes chapters on the benefits of asset tokenisation, the role of artificial intelligence in achieving sustainable development, legal issues in the green digital transformation, and human rights in a digital world. Through a mixture of fundamental analysis and real-world examples, readers will learn how emerging digital technologies can help achieve various SDGs and what legal challenges arise from their application. This important resource will be of interest to academics, government and legal officials whose work involves the legal regulation of the introduction and use of new digital technologies, as well as sustainable development challenges. Legal experts engaged in the design of new legal infrastructures during the current phase of digital, climatic and social transformation in private, public and social organizations will also find it useful.
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    ISBN: 9783031503818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 1048 p. 375 illus., 275 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1130
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Neural networks (Computer science).
    Abstract: The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures. It bridges together different disciplines, including artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuro- and social sciences, psychology and philosophy of mind, among others. The chapters are based on contributions presented at the 2023 Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence (the 14th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society, BICA*AI 2023), organized in collaboration with the University of Ningbo and held on October 13-15, 2023, in Ningbo, China. The book discusses emerging methods, theories and ideas towards the realization of general-purpose humanlike artificial intelligence or fostering a better understanding of the ways the human mind works. It provides engineers, mathematicians, psychologists, computer scientists and other experts with a timely snapshot of recent research and a source of inspiration for future developments in the broadly intended areas of artificial intelligence and biological inspiration.
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    ISBN: 9783031461385
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 349 p. 7 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International criminal law. ; Humanitarian law. ; International law. ; Human rights. ; International organization.
    Abstract: 1 The Definition of International Crime -- 2 The Preconditions for the International Criminal Court to Exercise its Jurisdiction -- 3 The Crime of Genocide and the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction -- 4 Crimes Against Humanity Under the ICC’s Jurisdiction -- 5 The ICC’s Jurisdiction Over War Crimes -- 6 The Crime of Aggression: The Birth of a Crime -- 7 Immunities Under Art. 27 ICCRSt and the ICC’s Jurisdiction -- 8 The ICC’s Jurisdiction Following a Security Council’s Referral of a Situation Concerning Citizens of States Non-Parties to the ICC: the Situation in Sudan and Libya (Art. 25 UN Charter & 13(b) ICCRSt) -- 9 The Awakening Hypothesis of the Complementarity Principle -- 10 Ecocide: The Emergence of a New Crime within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court? -- 11 Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Drones and Robots: to what extent their usage infringes upon established principles of international criminal law? -- 12 Cyber warfare: international criminal law in the digital era.
    Abstract: This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and elucidates the three foundational aspects of its jurisdiction as laid out in the Rome Statute: the preconditions for exercising jurisdiction (Article 12 ICCRSt), its substantive competence regarding core crimes (Articles 5-8bis ICCRSt), and the principle of complementarity (Article 17§1(a) ICCRSt). This principle, crucial to understanding the ICC’s ‘ultimate jurisdiction’, is invoked only when a State Party demonstrates an inability or unwillingness to genuinely undertake investigation or prosecution. The book further probes the ‘negative preconditions’ of the Court’s jurisdiction, in particular, immunities (Article 27 ICCRSt) and exceptions through Security Council referrals (Articles 13(b) and 15 ICCRSt). Intended for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, this second edition offers invaluable insights into the ICC’s jurisdiction, making a notable contribution to the existing literature. Importantly, it also navigates emerging fields of international criminal law, addressing topical and thought-provoking subjects such as ecocide, cyber warfare, automated lethal weapons, artificial intelligence, and the legal complexities arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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    ISBN: 9783031396229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XLI, 644 p. 49 illus., 47 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Constitutional law. ; Human rights. ; Administrative law.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction to Fundamental Rights (Albrecht Weber/Karl-Peter Sommermann/Wolfgang Babeck) -- Chapter 2: Structure of Fundamental Rights Catalogues (Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 3: Human Dignity (Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 4: Civil Liberties I (Freedom, Life, Liberty, Privacy) (Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 5: Civil Liberties II (Freedom of Thought, Expression, Religion, Assembly, Association and Movement) (Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 6: Civil Liberties III (Property and Economic Rights, Educational Rights, Arts and Science, Asylum) (Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 7: Equality Rights (Monika Florczak-Wątor) -- Chapter 8: Political Rights (Wolfgang Babeck/Diana-Urania Galetta/Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 9: General Judicial Rights (Karl-Peter Sommermann/Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 10: Specific Judicial Rights (Wolfgang Babeck) -- Chapter 11: Rights and Principles of the Economic, Social and Cultural Order (Eberhard Eichenhofer) -- Chapter 12: Global Collective Rights (Eberhard Eichenhofer) -- Chapter 13: Minority Rights (Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 14: Rights of the Children, Elderly and Handicapped (Wolfgang Babeck/Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 15: Environmental Rights (Wolfgang Babeck) -- Chapter 16: Constitutional Duties (Wolfgang Babeck) -- Chapter 17: Limitation and Derogation of Fundamental Rights (Albrecht Weber) -- Chapter 18: Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights (Albrecht Weber).
    Abstract: Writing Constitutions intends to serve as a practical manual for those writing constitutions or interested in their design. It is the first systematic and universal approach to coherently capture concepts and contents of a modern constitution. Volume II is a user-friendly guide covering the current best practice in human rights and contains a draft catalogue of human rights. It empowers judges, lawyers, civil rights activists, legislators, and academics to draft and interpret over 70 Human Rights and strengthen democracies. Writing Constitutions comes in three volumes: - Volume I: Institutions - Volume II: Fundamental Rights - Volume III: Constitutional Principles.
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    ISBN: 9783031458125
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 364 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Criminal behavior. ; Critical criminology. ; Human rights. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: Imperial Regimes -- Chapter 1: Uruguayan Police in the Age of Conservative Hegemony by Rafael Paternain -- Chapter 2: Securing Citizens, Pacifying Subjects and Criminalizing “Others”: The Dark Side of Community Policing in Latin America by Markus-Michael Müller -- Chapter 3: Tribal Law and Order and the Settler-Colonial Logics of Reservation Policing by Theresa Rocha Beardall -- Colonial Organizations -- Chapter 4: Policing Immigrant Communities: An Assessment of State Sanctioned Violence in the Name of Migration Control by Mercedes Valadez and Jennifer Noble -- Chapter 5: Techniques and Technologies: The Military Expansion of São Paulo’s Municipal Civil Guard by José Douglas dos Santos Silva -- Chapter 6: Policing in Puerto Rico: Reforms of the Twenty First Century, by Xavier Perez and Jhon Sanabria -- Repressive Encounters -- Chapter 7: Nos Quedamos Marcados: The Carceral Regime’s Ripple Effect on Mexican Families by Marlene Mercado -- Chapter 8: How Black Genocide Happens: Military Patronage, Policing, and the Coloniality of Gender in Rio de Janeiro Favelas by Carla dos Santos Mattos -- Chapter 9: The Criminology of State Violence will include interviews with critical theorists, Biko Agozino and Guillermina Seri -- Chapter 10: Counter-Colonial Methods includes interviews with critical methodologists, Robert Duran and Nicolas Barrera -- Chapter 11: Between Accountability and Alternatives is an interview with police reformers, Jhon Sanabria and Bernardo Gill.
    Abstract: This book advances a much-needed “postcolonial” framework in analyzing the police. It seeks to deepen our understanding of the police's role in maintaining Western global domination throughout the American region despite the violent end of colonial rule. Building on Chevigny's (1995) classic study, this book seeks to draw renewed attention to the role of police in perpetrating state violence and serving as the tip of the spear of state power. It seeks to understand the construction of marginality and the multiple and intersecting structures of colonial domination, before shining a light directly on the crimes of the state, in an attempt to hold criminal state organizations to account. It draws on interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies that center marginalized and colonized experiences and allows for the development of counter colonial knowledge. It speaks to academics and students in criminology, sociology, political science, and law, as well as to ethnic and area studies programs, such as Chicano/Latino and Latin American Studies, and to police administrators and policymakers. Daniel Gascón is Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Sebastian Sclofsky is Assistant Professor at California State University, Stanislaus, USA. Analicia Mejia Mesinas is Assistant Professor at Azusa Pacific University, USA. Xavier Perez is Co-Founder of the Criminology Department at DePaul University, USA. Jhon Sanabria is Executive Director Institute of Public Safety at Universidad Ana G. Méndez (UAGM), Puerto Rico.
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    ISBN: 9783031548208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 537 p. 236 illus., 200 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 935
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Software engineering.
    Abstract: Interpretable Rules with a Simplified Data Representation - a Case Study with the EMBER dataset -- Spatial econometric models: the pursuit of an accurate spatial structure with an application to labor market -- Use of Neighborhood-based Bridge Node Centrality Tuple for Preferential Vaccination of Nodes to Reduce the Number of Infected Nodes in a Complex Real-World Network -- Social Media Applications’ Privacy Policies for facilitating Digital Living -- Modeling the Alienability of an Electronic Document -- Particular Analysis of Regression Effect Sizes Applied on Big Data Set -- Foreign Languages Teaching Technologies and Methods in Traditional and Distance Forms of Learning -- Application of Fuzzy Logic for Evaluating Student Learning Outcomes in E-Learning -- The meaning of business and software architecture in the enterprise architecture -- Research of the Correlation Between the Results of Detection the Liveliness of a Face and its Identification by Facial Recognition Systems -- Profit Prediction Model for Steel Enterprises Based on Input and Output Prices.
    Abstract: These proceedings offer an insightful exploration of integrating data analytics in system engineering. This book highlights the essential role of data in driving innovation, optimizing processes, and solving complex challenges in the field. Targeted at industry professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts, this book serves as a comprehensive resource, providing actionable insights and showcasing transformative applications of data in engineering. It is a must-read for anyone keen on understanding and participating in the ongoing evolution of system engineering in our data-centric world.
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    ISBN: 9783031508608
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 341 p. 94 illus., 88 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Big Data 143
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Environmental management. ; Big data. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Environmental risks put one in six people at risk, as well as our complex ecosystems. Today, IoT sites can monitor the environment and assess risks. Clean technologies can help detect toxic substances, chemical spills, hazardous pollutants, and other issues, enabling both governments and industries to clean or protect the air, land, water, and other environments, and how IoT can support these processes. IoT-enabled environmental intelligence is the constant measurement and collection of our physical environment, through sensors and smart devices. Integrated sensors in irrigation facilities, water supply systems, pipelines, cisterns, weather stations, ocean, and industrial facilities—anywhere on the globe—can record temperature, relative humidity, water content, leaks, and any other physical parameters.
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    ISBN: 9783031508035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 96 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Science and Fiction
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Fiction. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Telecommunication. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Human-computer interaction. ; Cooperating objects (Computer systems).
    Abstract: Introduction -- The DARPA Dilemma -- Scattered Avatars -- Topsy Turing -- Fractured Memories -- Artificial Neurogenesis -- The Assimilation -- The Collective Singing the ‘I Can’t Decrypt Them’ Blues -- SANDI’s Environment -- Chatbot Lydia -- Asimov’s Failure -- The Hackers get Hacked -- Dangerous Liaisons -- SANDI’s Dilemma -- Dead. Yet Alive -- Answers at Last -- Preparing to Bring them Home -- The Collection Process -- The Final Preparations -- The Integration Begins -- The Integration of MAXWELL -- The Integration of ISAAC -- The Integration of SANDI -- The Integration of ELYSE -- When Robots Hug -- The Science Behind the Novel -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: By 2027, it had been seven years since the scientists’ sea-changing research on artificial psychology and robotics. The work debuted around the same time as Large Language Model Chatbots, and the power of the integration of the two technologies put many industries in a tailspin. The commercial and defense industries especially were still scrambling to regulate their use in research and universities. The sought-after scientists signed with DARPA to build reliable and secure AI entities, but the agency grew fearful of the technology’s power and ultimately decided it was too dangerous to bring to market and demanded the scientists destroy the work. The researchers couldn’t bring themselves to discard 20 years of research, so instead sent the entities to various research labs around the world. But unbeknownst to them, each AI-entity embraced its new home, growing, adapting, evolving, and ultimately connecting beyond what the researchers could envision. In the end, as the scientists catch up to each one, they realize the entities have discovered a very human means of interacting: the power of physical contact; and not physical contact between humans and technology, but physical contact between robotic entities. And with this discovery, the entities join forces to only grow stronger. This development ushers in a new paradigm where the difference between AI-entities and human entities becomes less and less discernible. All the AI and robotic science featured in the book is real; the story line is fictional, but with how fast innovation moves, it’s not hard to envision.
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    ISBN: 9783031516818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIII, 912 p. 129 illus., 87 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
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    Keywords: Dynamisches Gleichgewicht ; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; Agentenbasierte Modellierung ; CGE-Modell ; Theorie ; Economics ; Econometrics. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economic development. ; Computer science. ; Equilibrium (Economics) Mathematical models ; Economics, Mathematical ; Business Cycles ; Computational Economics ; Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling ; General Equilibrium ; General Equilibrium Modeling ; Growth Theory ; Heterogeneous Agents ; Stochastic Rational Expectations Economies ; Agents ; Growth Model ; Ramsey Model ; Perturbation Methods ; Heterogenous Agent Models ; Monetary and Fiscal Policy ; MATLAB ; GAUSS ; Python ; Lehrbuch ; Dynamische Makroökonomie ; Allgemeines Gleichgewichtsmodell ; Dynamische Makroökonomie ; Allgemeines Gleichgewichtsmodell
    Abstract: Part I: Representative Agent Models: Basic Models -- Perturbation Methods: Framework and Tools -- Perturbation Methods: Solutions -- Perturbation Methods: Model Evaluation and Applications -- Weighted Residuals Methods -- Simulation-Based Methods -- Discrete State Space Value Function Iteration -- Part II: Heterogenous Agent Models: Computation of Stationary Distributions -- Dynamics of the Distribution Function -- Overlapping Generations Models with Perfect Foresight -- OLG Models with Uncertainty -- Part III: Numerical Methods: Linear Algebra -- Function Approximation -- Differentiation and Integration -- Nonlinear Equations and Optimization -- Difference Equations and Stochastic Processes.
    Abstract: Contemporary macroeconomics is built upon microeconomic principles, with its most recent advance featuring dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. The textbook by Heer and Maußner acquaints readers with the essential computational techniques required to tackle these models and employ them for quantitative analysis. This third edition maintains the structure of the second, dividing the content into three separate parts dedicated to representative agent models, heterogeneous agent models, and numerical methods. At the same time, every chapter has been revised and two entirely new chapters have been added. The updated content reflects the latest advances in both numerical methods and their applications in macroeconomics, spanning areas like business-cycle analysis, economic growth theory, distributional economics, monetary and fiscal policy. The two new chapters delve into advanced techniques, including higher-order perturbation, weighted residual methods, and solutions to high-dimensional nonlinear problems. In addition, the authors present further insights from macroeconomic theory, complemented by practical applications like the Smolyak algorithm, Gorman aggregation, rare disaster models and dynamic Laffer curves. Lastly, the new edition places special emphasis on practical implementation across various programming languages; accordingly, its accompanying web page offers examples of computer code for languages such as MATLAB®, GAUSS, Fortran, Julia and Python. "This book does not only an excellent job in explaining the existing tools, but it also teaches the reader on how to write his/her own programs and it provides the reader with the tools to help advance the state of the art of dynamic macroeconomics." Wouter J. Den Haan, London School of Economics ”... provides the reader with exactly the necessary computational tools to solve the dynamic general equilibrium models macroeconomists care about. It is therefore the perfect complement to Stokey, Lucas and Prescott's and Sargent and Ljungqvist's theoretical treatment of modern macroeconomics." Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania.
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    ISBN: 9783031511608
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 122 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Journalism. ; Neurosciences. ; Emotions.
    Abstract: Chapter 1-Neurosciences of communication: a multidisciplinary approach -- Chapter 2- Methodology and procedures -- Chapter 3- What our data tells -- Chapter 4- Discussion: the psychophysiological impact of journalism -- Chapter 5- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the impact of news and literary journalism on human cognition and emotion. Providing an innovative analysis of psycho-physiological measures, including emotional response, perception of pain, and changes in heartbeat, Nery seeks to understand how readers react to journalistic texts. There is a growing enthusiasm in the search for understanding the processing of information, with some already arguing for the establishment of the neuroscience of communication as a new discipline. By combing neuroscience methods with communication research studies, specifically journalistic research and theory, Nery offers us a unique way of exploring and thinking about news, literary journalism, and the brain. Isabel Nery is an award-winning journalist and researcher, with a PhD in Communication Studies. Her previous works include: ‘Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’, biography, ‘The 5 Men Who Changed Portugal Forever’, crossed biographies, ‘The Prisoners’, reportage, and ‘Assault to Parliament', about the Portuguese political transition to democracy.
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    ISBN: 9783031517006
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 200 p. 15 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Virtues and Economics 8
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    Keywords: Business ethics. ; Economics. ; Culture. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: From gluttony and avarice to moderation and virtue -- Chapter 1. Blessed are the Gentle (Joshtrom Kureethadam) -- Chapter 2. Avarice in post-modern society (Stefano Zamagni) -- Chapter 3. What is Enough (Margaret Atkins) -- Chapter 4. Buddhism and the Right Consumption (Laszlo Zsolnai) -- Chapter 5. Good consumption in the perspective of Thomistic Personalism (Laura Baritz) -- Part II : Is mainstream economics to blame? -- Chapter 6. Political Economy, Moral Reasoning and Global Warming (David Rose) -- Chapter 7. A Critical Approach to Critiquing Economics (Geoffrey Brennan, Hayden Wilkinson) -- Chapter 8. Response from Peter Róna -- Chapter 9. Economics and three faces of prudence (Edward Skidelsky) -- Part III: Way forward -- Chapter 10. Social Trust, Virtue, and Market Coordination (Dominic Burbidge) -- Chapter 11. A Deeper Humanity: The Family as the School of an Inclusive Economy (Joseph Rice) -- Chapter 12. A radically new way to tune compound interest and its implications (Eors Szathmary).
    Abstract: This book explores the under-researched sources of the consumerist culture and the environmental damage it has brought about. The book is an outcome of the symposium on “The Ethics of Consumption” organised and hosted by the Las Casas Institute at the Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford as part of its Economics as a Moral Science Programme. It takes on two contemporary problems: the human weakness and capacity for wrong-doing, and the failure of modern economic theory to account for the moral character of human behaviour and its implicit encouragement of gluttonous life-styles. In a time when grand political schemes are proposed to revive sustainability of global economy, the authors of the papers collected in this book highlight the need for moral renewal without which the most revolutionary structural reforms are bound to fail at producing the desired outcome. Topics of the book include the meaning and sources of avarice, the attempt to define what is enough, exploration of philosophical and theological perspectives which can serve as building blocks for the ethics of consumption. This makes the book of great interest to a broad readership of economists, social scientists and philosophers.
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    ISBN: 9783031330261
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 330 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: History of Analytic Philosophy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bertrand Russell, feminism, and women philosophers in his circle
    Keywords: Analysis (Philosophy). ; Logic. ; Mathematics ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Russell, Bertrand 1872-1970
    Abstract: 1. Editors’ Introduction -- 2. A Moral and Intellectual Evaluation of Russell’s Romantic/Sexual Practices -- 3. Bertrand and Dora Russell on sex, marriage and the rule of fathers -- 4. Sex, Suffrage, and Marriage: Russell and Feminism -- 5. Alice Ambrose and women’s work in the foundations debate at the University of Cambridge, 1932-1937 -- 6. Alice Ambrose and Margaret MacDonald: Two Women Who Challenged Bertrand Russell on Ordinary Language -- 7. Susan Stebbing and Russell’s Logical Atomism -- 8. Grandmothers and Founding Mothers of Analytic Philosophy: Constance Jones, Bertrand Russell, and Susan Stebbing on Complete and Incomplete Symbols -- 9. Dorothy Wrinch and the Man of the Century -- 10. “I like her very much—she has very good brains.”: Dorothy Wrinch’s influence on Bertrand Russell -- 11. Patricia Russell and Her Influence on Bertrand Russell.
    Abstract: This book examines Bertrand Russell’s complicated relationships to the women around him, and to feminism more generally. The essays in this volume offer scholarly reassessments of these relationships and their import for the history of feminism and of analytic philosophy. Russell is a founder of analytic philosophy. He has also been called a feminist due to his public, decades-long advocacy for women’s rights and equality of the sexes. But his private behavior towards wives and sexual partners, and his apparently dismissive (occasionally public) responses to some women philosophers, raises the question of what sort of feminist (or chauvinist) Russell actually was. Focusing on women in Russell’s circle of acquaintance, including feminist activists and his philosophical interlocutors, this book casts new light on a timeless thinker’s feminism and the women who played critical roles in the making of analytic philosophy.
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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.
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    ISBN: 9783031462092
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXII, 403 p. 32 illus., 24 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Financial engineering. ; Accounting. ; Auditing. ; Digital Transformation ; emerging technologies ; artificial intelligence ; machine learning ; blockchain-based applications ; cloud computing ; cybersecurity management ; aligning digital technology with business strategy ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1:Incorporating Digital Skills in Accounting Education -- Chapter 2: Digital transformation in accounting: the nexus between technology, leadership, and beyond -- Chapter 3: Digital Transformation in Redefining the Role of the Finance and Audit Professional of the Future -- Chapter 4: A Topic Modeling-Based Review of Digital Transformation Literature in Accounting -- Chapter 5: Lost in Translation? The Required Vs. Actual Technology Skills of Accountants -- Chapter 6: Accountants’ Attitudes to Digital Technology: A Barrier to the Digital Transformation of Accounting? -- Chapter 7: How Accountants can Drive Digital Transformation -- Chapter 8: The Role of Artificial Intelligence In Management Accounting: An Exploratory Case Study -- Chapter 9: Blockchain and the Future of Accountancy: A Review on Policies and Regulations -- Chapter 10: Blockchain Technology in Accounting and Auditing: A Comprehensive Analysis and Review of Feasible Applications -- Chapter 11: Artificial Intelligence in Accounting: Ethical Challenges and Legal Perspectives -- Chapter 12: Harnessing Technologies and Data to Accelerate and Operationalize Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Initiatives -- Chapter 13: Digital Transformation in Audit - Japan’s Current Situation in Advantages and Challenges of Adopting Digital Technology.
    Abstract: This book elucidates the digital transformation of accounting by examining the countless challenges academic institutions encounter in the wake of technological progress. This underscores the importance of accountants in enhancing their skill set to align with today’s evolving digital landscape. The text evaluates cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and blockchain, exploring their impact on accounting decision-making processes. Through a comprehensive analysis of the intersection between these technologies and diverse industrial sectors, this book illuminates the distinctive challenges and possibilities. The book provides an essential reference for professionals and scholars seeking a thorough understanding of accounting domain in the digital age. Arif Perdana works as an Associate Professor at Monash University, Indonesia. His research interests are in digital strategy, sustainable digital transformation, data science and analytics, and management information systems. Arif has been working in academia in multiple countries (i.e., Australia, Denmark, and Singapore) for more than a decade. Tawei (David) Wang is the KPMG/Neil F. Casson Endowed Professor at DePaul University, USA. He received his PhD from Purdue University in 2009. His research interests include information security management and IT management.
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    ISBN: 9783031511424
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 338 p. 185 illus., 159 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Ethnic and Indigenous Business Studies
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship. ; New business enterprises. ; Race. ; Diversity in the workplace. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Philosophy. ; Management.
    Abstract: Part I: Africa -- 1. Declining grazing lands and climate change are forcing Maasai to diversify their livelihoods: Antecedents of Maasai entrepreneurial motivations and socioeconomic change -- 2. Herders who fish: Findings from pastoral and agropastoral communities in Kenya and South Sudan -- 3. Did Boru, Moshe Schwartz, Shaher El-Meccawi and Michael Kam: Borana cattle pastoralists in southern Ethiopia are diversifying their livelihoods by cultivating land and raising camels -- Part II: Middle East -- 4. From nomads to agro-pastoralists to urbanites -- 5. The nomad entrepreneurs of Iran: The history, major nomads, entrepreneurial activities, and challenges -- Part III: South Asia – Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh -- 6. Land as a golden tent-peg: Settlement and change among nomads in northern Afghanistan -- 7. Challenges to transhumant pastoralism due to socio-economic and ecological changes in Nepal's high mountains -- 8. Mobility to Sedentarisation: Pastoralism from colonial to post-colonial period in Uttarakhand Himalaya (India) -- 9. The Bede community- A nomadic group in Bangladesh -- Part IV: East Asia - China and Mongolia -- 10. Centralisation of livestock and grassland management through cooperatives in Tibetan pastoral areas of Qinghai, People’s Republic of China -- 11. Transformation from nomadic to sedentary livestock production in Inner Mongolia -- 12. Mongolia’s pastoral nomadism in transition: Putting case studies on socioecological feedbacks and socioeconomic forcing into a conceptual framework -- Part V: Arctic Region -- 13. Mechanisms for the positive transformation of the Arctic indigenous peoples from traditional nomadic reindeer herders to a more settled lifestyle -- 14. Snowmobile revolution and sedentarization of reindeer-herding nomads in the Kola Peninsula and Bolshezemelskaya tundra, northern European Russia -- 15. The Inuit – from igloos and tents and nomadic subsistence hunting and fishing to permanent settlements and heated homes.
    Abstract: Contemporary policymakers, as their predecessors, continue to view nomadic people as a weak minority, and their way of life and raising livestock as a backward and inefficient paradigm. Wherever nomads are not the dominant group, the trend to settle them continues even today as in the past. This book describes the changes forced upon formerly nomadic groups and how they still attempt to maintain their traditional, social, and cultural practices in their new settings. The book deals with the several modes of livelihood of these communities, including entrepreneurship, and demonstrates the impact of investment-oriented urbanization policies leading to eviction from ancestral lands, and hurdles for nomadic mobility, ultimately threatening their survival. The book illustrates how some groups like the Borana and the Maasai practice livelihood diversity and raise productive livestock, and how other groups migrate to urban centers in search of employment and remit money to family members left in the rural areas. The book aims to raise awareness among the research community, especially those who work on regional and demographic labor policies. It helps in understanding why society needs to help build business and livelihood strategies without harming the values of nomadic groups.
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    ISBN: 9783031491474
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 371 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Springer Studies in Alternative Economics
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    Keywords: Labor economics. ; Urban policy. ; Political science. ; Economics. ; Schools of economics. ; Platform economy ; Digital labor ; Platform capitalism ; Urban governance ; Social protection ; Digital platforms ; Capitalism ; Urban studies ; Digital economy ; Google ; Facebook ; Organization of labor ; Political economy of platform capitalism ; Amazon ; Microsoft ; Apple ; Industrial Revolution 4.0 ; Future of work ; Labor organization ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I. Theoretical Foundations -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Sandro Mezzadra) -- Chapter 2. Operations of Platforms. A Global Process in a Multipolar World (Sandro Mezzadra) -- Chapter 3. The process of valorization in the platform capitalism (Andrea Fumagalli) -- Chapter 4. Out of the Standard. Towards a Global Approach to Platform Labour (Maurilio Pirone) -- Chapter 5. What Urban Future: Do High-Tech Metropolises Dream of Electric Sheep? (Niccolò Cuppini) -- Chapter 6. The Politics of Platforms. Exploring Platform’s Infrastructural Role and Power (Mattia Frapporti) -- Chapter 7. Managing the Wheel: Managerial Normativity from the Wage Society to the Platform Age (Massimilano Nicoli) -- Chapter 8. Digital labour, informal unionism and the rise of a new workers subjectivity (Marco Marrone) -- Chapter 9. Platform capitalism: Infrastructuring migration, mobility, and racism (Stefania Animento) -- Chapter 10. Affect, precarity and feminised labour in Airbnb in London (Eleni Kambouri) -- Part II. Notes from the Field -- Chapter 11. Why the sectoral context matters for platform work (Bettina Haidinger) -- Chapter 12. A Variegated Platform Capitalism? Algorithms, Labour Process and Institutions in Deliveroo in Bologna and Uber in Lisbon (Marco Marrone) -- Chapter 13. Perceiving platform work as decent work? Views regarding working conditions among platform taxi drivers in Tallinn (Marge Unt) -- Chapter 14. Skills development as a political process: Towards new forms of mobilization and digital citizenship among platform workers (Filippo Bignami) -- Chapter 15. How to build alternatives to platform capitalism? (Mayo Fuster Morell) -- Chapter 16. Labour policies for a fairer gig economy (Annamaria Donini) -- Chapter 17. Engaging stakeholders with platform labour: The social lab approach (Raúl Tabarés) -- Chapter 18. Local best practices. Urban governance and the ongoing platformization process (Michelangelo Secchi) -- Chapter 19. Social protection, basic income and taxation in the Digital economy (Cristina Morini) -- Chapter 20. Latent conflict, invisible organisation: Everyday struggles in platform labour (Moritz Altenreid).
    Abstract: This open access book provides an overview of urban digital platforms such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, which, along with Amazon, Google, Facebook and other IT companies, constitute by now the infrastructures for other businesses to operate on and for our social life to go on. These platforms serve as standards-based techno-economic systems that simultaneously capture cooperation through remote coordination and organize labor via algorithm management. Based on a three-years research project, this contributed volume outlines a general theory of platform capitalism that conceives these platforms not only as technical devices, but as generative engines that operate at the interface of several aspects, such as digitalization of forms of social cooperation; algorithm-based management of labor and participation; and private and vertical appropriation of profits. These elements are somehow iconic of the capitalist evolution of the last decades, and they open up a reflection on new forms of “primitive accumulation” (in particular regarding data), on the mechanisms used to capture and extract social surplus value, and on the logistic-financial dimensions of capital. Finally, in light of the transformations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors examine how platforms can evolve into hegemonic organizational structures. Assuming we are all already living in the age of the platform, this book takes a multifaceted approach—combining sociology with urban studies, and political sciences with economics—to grasp the challenges our societies face in terms of ensuring fair economic growth, adequate social protections, and labor rights. It will appeal to anyone interested in digital platforms and how they are changing the organization of labor, urban spaces, and forms of governance.
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    ISBN: 9783031542886
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 295 p. 153 illus., 25 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 931
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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.
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    ISBN: 9783031541322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 156 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Memory and scales: culture, institutions, and interaction -- Chapter 3: Shifting memory narratives: the macro-meso link -- Chapter 4: Meso-processes: outsourcing the administration of European memory -- Chapter 5: Micro-level implementation: the politics of situations -- Chapter 6: Epistemic authority in the micro-details of pedagogical memory discourse -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental intermediary institutions (including the Memory Studies Association and Euroclio) and, in the end, participants in policy projects, attribute meaning to the past and connect that past with specific norms and values. The book queries how the European Commission turns more general cultural memories into concrete moral discourses in its memory policy; how these policies are institutionally operationalised; what draws these institutions to the European Commission’s memory policy; and what happens when individual citizens are exposed to the outcomes of those policy projects. Theoretically, Outsourcing the European Past integrates theories from cultural sociology, political science, cultural studies and sociolinguistics in an innovative theory of memory. Thomas Van de Putte, PhD, is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London. His first book, Contemporary Auschwitz/Oswiecim: a synchronic, interactional approach to collective memory was published in 2021. He works on questions of cultural and collective Holocaust memory, combining perspectives from sociology, linguistics and cultural studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031520150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 152 p. 25 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Relational Economics and Organization Governance
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    Keywords: Evolutionary economics. ; Institutional economics. ; Economic sociology. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Psychology, Industrial. ; Industrial organization. ; Relational Economics ; Organizational Learning ; Relational Learning ; Corporate Governance ; Methodological Relationism ; Organizational Theory ; Open Systems ; Case Study ; Relational ; Learning ; CoPs ; Transcultural Learning ; Meta-constructs ; Intra-Organizational Learning
    Abstract: Conceptual Groundwork, Research Questions and Methods -- Literature Review of Organizational Learning -- Conceptual Implications of the Literature Review -- Methodological Change: A Relational Reconceptualization of Organizational Learning -- Transcultural Learning as a Model for Relationalizating Multiple Rationalities -- The Role of Communities of Practice in the Operationalization of Relational Learning in Organizations -- Empirical Study on Organizational Learning as a Relational Process.
    Abstract: This book critically examines existing organizational learning theories that often center on employees and adopt a neo-classical organizational view. In this book, organizational learning (OL) is conceptualized from a relational governance perspective. Departing from the relational economics approach, it describes organizations as dynamic nexuses of stakeholders' resources and interests, extending beyond conventional intra-organizational contexts to encompass an open systems view. By viewing organizations as independent entities, distinct from individual stakeholders, the author introduces the concept of transactions as the fundamental unit of analysis in organization theory. Stakeholders contribute diverse rationalities, and OL emerges as the process of relationalizing these rationalities, enabling multi-contextual transactions within organizations. This book sheds light on epistemological and ontological challenges in OL literature, such as the OL paradox and anthropomorphism. To address these issues, the author advocates a shift from methodological individualism to methodological relationism, wherein OL becomes a micro-meso-relational process involving both stakeholders and the organization as an entity. Combining conceptual insights with empirical evidence from a multinational company's case study, the book showcases how relational learning can be practically applied in organizations. The findings corroborate the conceptual framework, supporting the notion of organizations as resource-rich nexuses and learning as a comprehensive relational process involving both entities and stakeholders. This book offers an essential contribution to the field. It appeals to scholars and practitioners interested in organizational studies, corporate governance, and relational economics.
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    ISBN: 9783031404153
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 117 p. 57 illus., 44 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Southern Space Studies
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    Keywords: Law of the sea. ; International law. ; Aeronautics ; Outer space ; Astronautics. ; Latin America
    Abstract: This peer-reviewed book presents a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in enabling Latin America to fulfil its developmental aspirations. Following on from the highly acclaimed Parts 1 to 4, it explains how space and its applications can be used to support the development of the full range and diversity of Latin America societies, while being driven by Latin American goals. The Latin American space sector is currently undergoing a phase of rapid and dynamic expansion, with new actors entering the field and with space applications increasingly being used to support the continent’s social, economic, and political development. All across Latin America, attention is shifting to space as a fundamental part of the continental development agenda, and the creation of a Latin American space agency is evidence of this. Additionally, while in recent years, significant advances in economic and social development have lifted many of Latin America’s people out of poverty, there is still much that needs to be done to fulfil the basic needs of the population and to afford them the dignity they deserve. To this end, space is already being employed in diverse fields of human endeavour to serve Latin America’s goals for its future, but there is still a need for further incorporation of space systems and data. This book will appeal to researchers, professionals and students in fields such as space studies, international relations, governance, and social and rural development.
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    ISBN: 9783031477805
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 334 p. 113 illus., 108 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Economics
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Labor economics. ; International business enterprises. ; Economic history. ; Pandemic ; Financial crisis ; European Union ; Sustainable development ; New normal ; Foreign trade ; Labor market participation ; Vulnerable groups ; Employment ; Society ; Romania ; Green jobs ; Digital transformation ; Policy ; Gender ; SMEs ; Remote work ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Preliminary Comments. A Scientometric Dimension of the Economic and Social Impact of Covid-19 -- Chapter 2. Another Crisis, Different Responses? – Determinants of Crisis and Mixt Impact on Economic Development. A Comparative Approach of the Eu Countries -- Chapter 3. Digital Transformation. Challenges and Limits for the New Normal -- Chapter 4. Thinking Beyond Covid-19: What’s Next for Romanian SMES? -- Chapter 5. Distortions and Gains in the Foreign Trade Activity During the Post-pandemic Era -- Chapter 6. Tax Burden During the Pandemic: Lessons Learned and Challenges -- Chapter 7. The (Post)pandemic Employment Model -- Chapter 8. The Impact of the Pandemic on the Participation in the Labour Market of Vulnerable Groups: Women, Young People, the Elderly, Self-employed Workers -- Chapter 9. Propensity for Migration of Healthcare Professionals: Push-pull Factors Analysis -- Chapter 10. Features of the Policies Adopted for the Mitigation of the Pandemic Recession Impact on the LabourMarket Operation -- Chapter 11. The Impact of Covid-19 on the Healthcare Labour Market in European Countries and Romania in Particular -- Chapter 12. Issues Regarding the Management of Hazardous Medical Waste During the Covid-19 Crisis in Romania -- Chapter 13. Conclusions – Looking Forward - Main Challenges and Limits.
    Abstract: This volume examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market and the business environment in the European Union (EU), with a specific focus on Romania, the least developed country in the EU. The book emphasizes the need to rethink recovery models and suggests a new normal based on the pillars of economic, climatic, and social resilience. Is proposed the redefinition the policies’ mix that will allow fundamental changes in development, focused also on social and societal profit, the redefinition of productivity and environmental performance of businesses, and the rebalancing of work and leisure life. The COVID-19 crisis not only accelerated the digital transformation of society but also reconfigured the coordinates of economic development by prioritizing sustainable development for all, based on green jobs as a starting point for business innovation and decent jobs for active social protection. Following this approach, the contributions discuss selected issues with importance to the development of society in the post-pandemic world. The book is of interest to students, scholars and researchers in economics, business, management and political science, as well as to policy makers and practitioners, for a better understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market and the business environment in European Union.
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    ISBN: 9783031522840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 188 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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    Keywords: Theater ; Literature, Modern ; Drama.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Love and Marriage -- Chapter 3: Morals and Manners -- Chapter 4: Comedies of Realism and Romance -- Chapter 5: The Theatre of War -- Chapter 6: Deeper Waters -- Chapter 7: Drama and Contemporary Society -- Chapter 8: Post-War Drama and Fiction -- Chapter 9: Last Plays -- Chapter 10: The Entertainer.
    Abstract: Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography. The more analytical literary approach adopted here places Coward’s success in its wider theatrical context, making the connections with the work of other dramatists. He developed his technique according to what worked with theatre audiences. Taking up the well-made play, he brought in a more colloquial dialogue, explored, for instance, the morality and psychology of marriage and free love, and frequently exploited the dramatic possibilities of characters grouped into two camps. The book considers both the ‘pleasant’ and ‘unpleasant’ plays (to use the Shavian terms), and the episodic patriotic plays. It Includes Coward’s ambivalent approach to the ‘theatre of war’ in the 20th century. (123) Roger Kojecky: After an Oxford University English Faculty D. Phil. he held teaching positions in Tokyo and London University (lecturing on drama). He has been Secretary of the Christian Literary Studies Group, Oxford, and edits The Glass, covering a range of academic literature with articles and reviews. .
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    ISBN: 9783031472114
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 353 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Keywords: Motion pictures, American.
    Abstract: Chapter 1/Introduction Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART I -THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE :Silent Films -- Chapter 2 Races to the Rescue in an Ethnic Urban Milieu: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Italian Dramas Irene Lottini -- Chapter 3The Italian (1915) and the Representation of Italian Immigrants in Silent American Cinema Bernard Kuhn Revising Gender and Ethnic Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Italianness and Foundational Masculinity in Edward Dmytryk’s Rendition of Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 5 A Sting from the Past: Femininity and Ethnic Roots in Helen De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995) Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 6: The Celluloid Closet: Sex, Power, and Coming Out Repression of the Italian American Closet in Nunzio’s Second Cousin (1994), Kiss Me, Guido (1997), and Mambo Italiano (2003) Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Chapter 7From True Love (1989) to Union Square (2011): Recovering the Exploded Family in Nancy Savoca’s Films Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 8: A Realistic Tale of Improbable Friendship. Notes on Matthew Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART II - ITALIAN AMERICANS IN OTHER MEDIA -- Chapter 9: Italian American Gangsters Taking on a New Line of Work in Luc Besson’s The Family (2013) Rosetta Caponetto Giuliani -- Chapter 10: The Transnational Puppet: From Italy and Back Federico Pacchioni -- Chapter 11: Comfortable and Uncomfortable Fictions: Italian Americans in the First Decades of Television Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 12: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Italian Americans on Television from the 1970s to the1990s Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 13: Italian Americans on Television in the New Millennium: From Small to Smaller Screen(s) Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 14: The Goddess and the Huntress: Diana and DC’sHelena Bertinelli Felice Italo Beneduce -- Chapter 15: CNN’s Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 16: Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 17: An Unlimited Memeiosis of The Godfather: Diachronic and Synchronic Observations of a Pervasive and Ubiquitous Meme Anthony Dion Mitzel -- PART III - INTERVIEWS -- Chapter 18: Interview with Helen De Michiel Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 19: Interview with Tony Vitale Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 20: Interview with Michela Musolino Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 21: Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri Ryan Calabretta-Sajder.
    Abstract: Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Italian Dramas (1908-1913) to the present day. Building on the editors’ previous volume Italian Americans in Film, this collection broadens their scope to address marginalized aspects of Italian Americanness, including the work of women directors and depictions of same-sex relationships. The book consists of three parts. Part I, “The Immigrant Experience”, focuses on feature films and is divided into two sections: “Silent Films” (which analyses some of Griffith’s early films and Barker’s The Italian, 1915), and “Revising Gender Perspectives”, which includes chapters focusing on single films – such as Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (1949), De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) – and survey essays that discuss the Italian American ‘celluloid closet’ and some of Savoca’s films. Part II, “Italian Americans in Other Media”, offers a wide range of essays informed by different approaches that investigate the immigrant experience in terms of transmediality and transnationality. The types of media examined in this section include television and graphic novels as well as puppetry, Instagram, and Internet memes. Part III contains interviews with Italian American scholars, movie directors, and performers. Together, the contributions to this collection demonstrate the vitality, mutation, and persistence of Italian Americanness in visual media. Daniele Fioretti is Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature (2017) and Carte di fabbrica. La narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013). He co-edited the book Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022). Fulvio Orsitto is Director of the Georgetown University campus in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, and has edited and co-edited ten volumes, including Pasolini: American Perspectives (2015), TOTalitarian ARTs: The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-society (2017), and Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031513077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 183 p. 40 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Motion pictures ; Motion pictures
    Abstract: 1.Setting the film studio stage -- 2. Cultures of innovation at Pinewood.-3. In the studio and on location 1 -- 4. In the studio and on location 2 -- 5. Managerial culture and labour relations at Pinewood -- 6. Cultural life at Pinewood -- 7. Anatomy of Pinewood in transition -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War. It presents a revisionist, micro history organized around key themes that are crucial to understanding the studios’ longevity during a particularly turbulent period. Pinewood’s survival at a time when other major film studios such as Denham closed, is explained. The book examines contemporary insights into how Pinewood’s technologies and practices compared to Hollywood’s when filmmaking methods were being scrutinized. Thirteen films produced in 1946-7 are analysed in detail, tracking how economic pressures engendered many creative techniques and innovative technologies. Prevailing cultures of management and labour organization are foregrounded, as well as insights into being a studio employee. These are vividly brought to life through an in-depth focus on the in-house studio magazine the Pinewood Merry-Go Round which provides rare details of sports and leisure activities organized at the studios. Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. Publications include British National Cinema (1997), Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA (2002), Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-55 (2012), Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s (2019, with Joshua Yumibe), and The Eastmancolor Revolution (2021, with Keith M. Johnston, Paul Frith and Carolyn Rickards).
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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.
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    ISBN: 9783031519826
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 340 p. 180 illus., 154 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 870
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Part I: Industry -- Numerical study through CFD of the behavior of a centrifugal fan for dust extraction systems -- Optimization of the stamping process of oven sides panels for domestic cooking through finite element modeling -- Topological optimization of swing arm for electric motorcycles -- Micromechanical modeling of biobased sisal polylactic acid compounds -- A Proposal of a Fair Voting Ensemble Classifier Using Multi-Objective Optimization -- Physical-Chemical Characterization of Cocoa Oil Subjected to an Accelerated Fermentation Process -- Control system for a cacao drying process: case study cylindrical dryer -- Comparative study of multivariate statistical methods for predicting the academic performance of students at the University of Guayaquil -- Calculation of the efficiency of an electromagnetic coil according to the induction resistance of the pot -- Development of a Control System for a Biomechanical Prosthetic -- The Impact of Intranet Use on Internet Sales During COVID-19: A Study of Companies in Ecuador -- Embedded Systems for Tracking and Detection of Pets through an IoT Network -- Mobile Application for Online Procedures in the Municipality of San Miguel de Ibarra -- Assessment of decommissioning cost of proton therapy centers depending on the shielding material in the building process -- Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) -- Part II: Infotelecom -- Use of leaderboards to gamified drive student performance as a motivational strategy in VLE environments -- Microlearning as a learning consolidation strategy for the university blended learning modality in a VLE -- Physical and Organoleptic Evaluation of 12 Cocoa Clones (Theobroma cacao L.) of National Type, in Cocoa Liquor – A Study from Ecuador -- External factors and socioeconomic influence on users acceptance of online payments -- Proposal of evaluation cases for the standardization of the validation activities of neutron unfolding codes -- Function and Management Emulation of CEDIA Backbone: The Ecuadorian Advanced Network Updated From IPv4 to IPv6 -- Implementation of an Intelligent Platform for Sustainable Urban Water Consumption Management: A Case Study of Digital Transformation in Zaruma City, Ecuador -- Governmental portal of the National Transit Agency of Ecuador: Web usability aspects and user satisfaction aimed at the elderly. -- Development of a Web Application for evaluating corporate social responsibility practices -- Performance evaluation of an internet-of-things platform based on open-source -- Development and evaluation of an intelligent chatbot for the management of citizen procedures in the GAD San Miguel de Ibarra -- Software for Speech Therapy Support Through PECS Oriented to Digital Learning Environments For Children With Moderate ASD -- Development of a Brain-Computer Interface to Control Finger Movements of a Robotic Hand -- Proposal of an Agile Approach based on Scrum for Managing Continuing Education Programs -- Development of a Compact Synchrotron Proton Therapy Center Model for Monte Carlo-Based Radiation Protection Studies.
    Abstract: This book is dedicated to exploring the practical applications and future perspectives of intelligent technologies. It delves into various domains, including industry, mobility, telecommunications, and environmental considerations. The innovative nature of this text enables us to draw connections between technical advancements and experiences aimed at enhancing the integration of emerging technologies on local, national, and regional scales. It showcases the strides made in diverse engineering domains, underlining the book’s multidisciplinary appeal. This book is intended for a wide readership, catering to master's and doctoral students, professors, and researchers in the field of cutting-edge technologies. It also extends its relevance to businesses engaged in engineering development. The contents offer insights into novel methodologies, real-world case studies, and innovative techniques designed to optimize systems, ultimately contributing to societal progress.
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    ISBN: 9783031535291
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 237 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
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    Keywords: Translating and interpreting. ; Comparative literature. ; Interpretation, Literary. ; Ethnology ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Review of Goldblatt’s Translation of Mo Yan’s Works -- Chapter 3. Translation, Rewriting and Manipulation -- Chapter 4. The Study -- Chapter 5. Poetological Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 6. Ideological Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 7. Patronage Factors in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao) -- Chapter 8. Translator Subjectivity in Goldblatt’s Translation of 生死疲劳(Sheng Si Pi Lao).-Chapter 9. Discussion -- Chapter 10. Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book presents an in-depth analysis of Howard Goldblatt’s translation of Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (L&D). It explores how Goldblatt translates the original novel under the influence of three major manipulative powers: poetics, ideology and patronage, as well as his own subjectivity (translator subjectivity), to achieve his objectives as a literary translator. The author analyses both the translation and its paratext to gain a more complete understanding of Goldblatt’s accomplishments, and examines how Goldblatt rewrites the original text under the influence of various patronage factors, such as the original author, publisher, editor, market expectancy, literary collaborator, and the target reader. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the production, reception and dissemination of Goldblatt’s translation, exposing the motivations behind his translation in full measure, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Studies, and Chinese Culture and Literature. Hu Liu is lecturer at the School of Foreign Studies, West Anhui University, China. He completed his PhD in translation studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, from 2016 to 2021.
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    ISBN: 9783031512544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 169 p. 20 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences 20
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    Keywords: Social sciences. ; Sampling (Statistics). ; Statistics . ; History. ; Science ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Foreword: The Peculiar Meanings of Data -- Chapter 1: Considering Data: Critique and Method -- Chapter 2: Data Arithmetic, Ratios and Mechanical Reasoning in the 17th Century -- Chapter 3: Analytical Probability, Averages and Data Distributions in the 19th Century -- Chapter 4: Idols, Paradigms and Specters in Data Sciences -- List of illustations.-List of references.-General index.
    Abstract: This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, sociology and historical works throughout the 20th century. Attention is given to the skills of scholars and their methods, their assumptions, and the socio-historical conditions that made calculations and their interpretations possible. In doing so, questions posed as early as Émile Durkheim’s and Ernst Cassirer’s ones are revisited and the concept of symbolic form is put to the test in this particular survey, conducted over long period of time. Although distinct from a methodological and epistemological point of view, today these regimes may be found together in the toolbox of statisticians and those who comment on their conclusions. As such, the book is addressed to social scientists and historians and all those who are interested in numerical productions. This book is a translation of an original French edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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    ISBN: 9783031523151
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 259 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Communication in science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes (1963) From Novel to Screenplay, Bernard Montoneri, Independent Researcher, Taiwan; Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 2. Travelling through Time and Space in the Works of Russian Speaking Science Fiction Writers, Iryna B. Morozova, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine -- Chapter 3. El anacronópete (1884, 1887), the First Journey in a Time Machine in Hispanic literature, Fernando Darío González Grueso, Tamkang University, Taipei Rachid Lamarti, Tamkang University, Taipei -- Chapter 4. The Ice People (1968), a story of humankind’s auto-destruction, Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 5. ‘I’m just a traveller’: Doctor Who and the Wibbly Wobbly Histories of Time and Space, Alyson Miller and Eleanore Gardner, Deakin University, Australia -- Chapter 6. Time Travel in M. Bugakov's Master and Margarita, Anna Toom, Touro College & University System, New York, USA -- Chapter 7. Chronotopes, Afrotropes, and Restorative Aesthetics in Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self, Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany -- Chapter 8. Femi Osofisan’s One Legend, Many Seasons, Oyewumi Olatoye, Agunbiade & Enongene Mirabeau, Sone, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa -- Chapter 9. Time Travel in Japan and The Girl who Leapt through Time, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Nagasaki University, Japan -- Chapter 10. The Concept of Time Travel in Vedic Literature- A Perspective, Beena Giridharan, Curtin University, Malaysia.
    Abstract: Time travel is an important theme in literature and other arts. This excellent collection introduces readers to some of the most innovative and influential works and offers insightful discussions of works from different literary traditions and in different forms, both famous classics and new discoveries. For anyone interested in this theme and its various manifestations, reading this collection will be remarkably rewarding. Professor Zhang Longxi, Hunan Normal University, China The book consists of fascinating chapters that explore in depth various themes related to time travel. Each chapter focuses on a different literary work or medium and explores how time travel has influenced different cultures, literature, and philosophies. It is a highly engaging resource for exploring this interesting topic from the perspectives of different literary works and cultures. Professor Yoriko Ishida, National Institute of Technology, Oshima College, Japan. In this wonderful collection, time travel is read under the temporal gaze of capitalism and imperialism, history and modernity, and across the undulating sheets of time. It is an essential edition to the field of time travel studies and a form of revelatory chrononautics. One enters the book and moves across the great and small histories of time and space. Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia. Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter is written by professors and scholars from various countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and Australia. The book addresses themes of racism, sexism, feminism, and social injustice as well as dystopian futures. This will appeal to students and scholars studying science fiction, dystopian literature, world literature, and world cinema. Bernard Montoneri was an Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan until January 2020. He is now an independent researcher. He has around 60 publications and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the IAFOR Journal of Education until 2017. He is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship since 2019.
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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).
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    ISBN: 9783031478314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 313 p. 23 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights
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    Keywords: Motion picture plays, European. ; Culture ; Emigration and immigration. ; Literature. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I Art and Activism by and with Refugees -- 2. The Trojans Project: Therapeutic Drama from Syria to Scotland -- 3. Channelling and Challenging the ‘imperative to tell’: Reflections on Negotiating Representations of Refugeeness from Practice-Based Performance Research -- 4. ‘To live well is to story well’: Co-writing and Polyphonic Writing with Denmark’s Asylum Community -- 5. Life in Detention: Journey and Border -- 6. Carceral Witnessing and the Spatial Imagination -- Part II Challenging Representations of Refugees -- 7. ‘She is the meteor and I, her space’: Co-Becoming and Biopolitical Trauma in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail -- 8. Unsettled: Narrative Strategies in Exhibitions About the ‘Refugee Crisis’ -- 9. Archaeologies of Nonentity in Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope -- 10. Beyond Objectifying the Humane: Memory in Media and Political Genres -- 11. Wolves in the Sanctuary: Ecopolitics and Forced Migration in the Literature of the Anthropocene -- 12. Remapping the Borderlands of Britain: The Calais “Jungle” and the Enduring Legacy of Imperial Frontier Policing -- .
    Abstract: This book engages with current debates around refugeedom by examining cultural production that represents and interrogates the construction of refugees and the refugee experience on the borders of contemporary Europe. The refugee subject is produced by discursive regimes and border practices inherited from colonial projects that construct the diametrically opposed concepts of citizen and refugee, and their attendant administrative sub-categories. In the early twenty-first century these categories have been strengthened by the politicisation of forced migration and the hardening of ‘Fortress Europe’. While the predominant response to the increasing numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has been to harden the borders (regime), on the one hand, or to stress the common humanity of those displaced (refuge), on the other, this volume argues that both approaches result in refugees becoming objectified, othered, and abstracted as vectors of exile. It explores what recent cultural production can achieve in engaging with and representing issues of dispossession, detention and resettlement, and probes the limits of artistic potential to mediate the refugee experience. It examines transnational approaches to cultural production that both occupy and exceed the borders of Europe, with a focus on borderscapes, spaces of detention, and (neo-)colonialism. Bringing together original contributions from an international range of scholars, it analyses contemporary textual and visual representations of forced migration to argue that other forms of solidarity and hospitality towards refugees in Europe and beyond must be possible. Dr Fiona Barclay is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on memories of colonial and postcolonial migration, including Writing Postcolonial France: Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), and France's Colonial Legacies: Memory, Identity and Narrative (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013). Dr Beatrice Ivey is a Learning Designer at the University of Leeds, UK. As a researcher in French and Francophone Studies her work explores the transcultural memory of French colonialism across literatures from France and North Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031400339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 213 p. 31 illus., 18 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
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    Keywords: Motion pictures. ; Motion pictures ; Gender identity in mass media.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1 – Découpage: Building the House -- Chapter 2 – Mise-en-scène: Visualising the Rooms -- Chapter 3 – Sound: Creating Invisible Rooms -- Chapter 4 – Editing: Reconstructing the House -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into mutable onscreen domains imbued with depth, metaphor, and expressivity. The book studies the films through the lens of four filmmaking processes in particular: découpage, mise-en-scène, sound and editing. Close analysis reveals how filmmakers use these cinematic ‘building blocks’ to shape onscreen worlds charged with emotion and animated by the warp and weft of psychic life. Images of home abound in the cinema, and women frequently find themselves at the core of both structures. Drawing on recent spatial and feminist enquiry, the book reviews the idea of home as a fixed and stable location and illustrates how the art of cinema is well equipped to explore home as an imaginary as well as a material realm. With its emphasis on film practice as a route into critical reflection, this book will be of interest to filmmakers, film theorists and those who simply want to understand more about how films work. Louise Radinger Field is a filmmaker and writer living in London. She has a PhD in film from the University of Reading.
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    ISBN: 9783031527531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 147 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics. ; Film genres. ; Language and languages ; Sociology. ; Leisure. ; Literary form.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Reading, Genre, and Crisis -- Chapter 3: Reading and Time -- Chapter 4: Reading as a Coping Strategy -- Chapter 5: Re-reading in the Pandemic -- Chapter 6: Lockdown Experiences of Social Reading. -Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a unique insight into the ways in which the first UK COVID-19 lockdown affected public reading habits. The authors begin by outlining the background to the study, the research methodology and design, and an overview of the headlines of the data, before going on to survey the literature on the relationship between pandemics, literature (especially the role played by genre and popular fiction) and reading habits. They then examine how participants reported that the lockdown period had affected the amount that they read; how they accessed books and discussed their reading with others; the use of reading as a coping strategy; and returning to re-read books that offered familiarity, reliability, and nostalgia. Finally, the concluding chapter brings together the overall findings of the project and briefly outlines future work in the field. This book will be of interest to academics in fields such as literary and genre studies, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, stylistics, health humanities, and sociology, as well as practitioners working in education, in bibliotherapy, and in libraries. Abigail Boucher is Lecturer in English Literature at Aston University, UK. She specialises in genre and popular fiction of the long nineteenth century, with interests in the body, class, and medicine and science in literature. Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Aston University, UK. His research is in the area of stylistics and specifically in cognitive and empirical approaches to reading literature within different contexts. Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK. Her research explores cognitive stylistics, reader response studies and contemporary fiction. Robbie Love is Lecturer in English Language at Aston University, UK. He is a corpus linguist, specialising in contemporary spoken discourse, and advocates for the application of corpus approaches to address societal challenges. Caroline Godfrey is Researcher in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her work concentrates on the language used to conceptualise English education in the UK, with a particular focus on the use of metaphor.
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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).
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    ISBN: 9783031510007
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 181 p.)
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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    Keywords: Africa ; Development economics. ; Economic development. ; Schools of economics. ; International economic relations. ; Political planning. ; Tax havens ; WTO ; Decolonial agency ; Emerging markets ; India ; Capital flight ; IMF ; Ecological debt ; Financial capital ; China ; Russia ; Financial imperialism ; Multinational corporations ; World Bank ; Credit rating agencies ; Emerging economies ; Climate justice ; African elites ; Brazil
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Entrapment of Africa in an Asymmetrical Global Economy -- Chapter 2. Multinational Corporations and Tax Havens as Beneficiaries of a Shadow Financial System -- Chapter 3. World Bank, IMF and WTO as Agents of Financial Imperialism -- Chapter 4. The Tyranny of the International Credit Rating Agencies -- Chapter 5. International Financial Subordination and the Pathologies of Sovereign Debt -- Chapter 6. Imperial Ecocide and the Bane of Global Climate Finance -- Chapter 7. Africa and the Age of Global Elites-the “Davos Men” -- Chapter 8. African Elites as Clients of the Offshore World -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: A Canvass for a Decolonial African Agency.
    Abstract: This book discusses the role played by powerful global institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation, multinational corporations, and the international credit rating agencies in keeping Africa marginalised in the world economy. The book focuses on the intrusive roles of these institutions as enablers and beneficiaries of capital outflows and financial subordination in Africa. Diverging from the official narrative that touts China and the other emerging economies as global reformers that are poised to partner Africa in its fight against financial subjugation, the book instead argues that, like the Western powers, the emerging economies are benefiting prodigiously from a rigged global financial system that keeps Africa as a net creditor to the rest of the world. The book draws its theoretical framework from the repressed heterodox theories including dependency, core-periphery, world systems and Marxist theories as well as the decolonial approach. It concludes with a call for a decolonial African agency that should champion an epistemic rebellion against the neo-liberal and neo-classic economic traditions that have been historically deployed to justify Africa’s subordinated position in the global economic governance. This book comes at moment in time when Africa is ready to become a Rule Maker not a Rule Taker. The analysis Dr. Moyo presents having been in the front line of public policy and international negotiations demonstrate the need for Africa to re-write the rules to foster our own Transformation. Jason Rosario Braganza, Executive Director, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD).
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    ISBN: 9783031544194
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 311 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Continental Philosophy. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part Ⅰ. Intentionality and Actions -- Chapter 2. From Speech Act to Intentionality -- Chapter 3. The Structure of Intentionality -- Chapter 4. The Meaningful Action and Commitment -- Part Ⅱ. Collective Intentionality and Normativity -- Chapter 5. Normativity as Rational Ground -- Chapter 6. Normativity as Collective Creation -- Chapter 7. Normativity as Intersubjective Control -- Part Ⅲ. Normativity with Universal Validity -- Chapter 8. Communication and Social Evolution -- Chapter 9. Discourse Ethics and Moral Cognitivism -- Chapter 10. Critique of Cognitive Parallelism -- Chapter 11. Conclusion./ .
    Abstract: This book focuses on the formation of human social consciousness and develops a naturalist approach to social normativity. Beginning from Marx's uncompleted concept of social consciousness, the book retrospects the studies about collective intentionality in the area of philosophy of mind and social ontology. Specifically, a reinterpretation of social consciousness with respect to collective intentionality can offer us a new, naturalistic approach to the social formation and normativity. According to the naturalistic approach, we can discern the inner structure of social consciousness as a systematic pattern of Intentionality. Social consciousness involves three levels of development: subjective, objective and absolute. With this new pattern of social consciousness, the “naturalism” of the young Karl Marx can be revived. And by grasping the most essential ability of human Intentionality as the source of social formation, it also makes an interdisciplinary study of social philosophy and philosophy of mind possible. Yang Chen is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Institute of Marxist Philosophy and Chinese Modernization and the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D from Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2022) and M.A in Philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin (2016).
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    ISBN: 9783031509230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 196 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Buddhism and culture. ; Communication.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Buddhist Advocacy and Activism Research -- 3. Historical Developments of Buddhist Advocacy and Activism in Siam and Modern Thailand -- 4. Identification and Humanizing and Dehumanizing Rhetoric -- 5. A Buddhist Rhetoric of Dignity and Degradation -- 6. A Buddhist Rhetoric of Duty: Justifying Advocacy and Activism -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book studies Buddhist public advocacy and activism in Thailand—a movement often broadly called socially engaged Buddhism—from the perspective of rhetorical studies, specifically, on humanizing and dehumanizing communication practices. In modern Thailand and historical Siam, Buddhism has been integral to the social change processes shaping civil society and an emerging democracy. This study examined two problems: How do contemporary Buddhists in Thailand use rhetorical practice to influence the way the issues they work on are understood, and how do these Buddhists justify their advocacy and activism in rhetorical practice? To the first, a rhetoric of dignity, or humanization, was the central answer. To the second, a rhetoric of duty was the central answer. For researchers in Southeast Asian Studies, Thai Studies, and Buddhist Studies, this book offers a fresh perspective on socially engaged Buddhism through the lens of the communication discipline. For researchers in Psychology and Communication, it sheds light on the understudied practices of humanizing communication. The bulk of the current research is focused on its opposite—dehumanization—and most of this literature is in the field of psychology even though humanization and dehumanization are fundamentally and ontologically communication phenomena. For researchers within the field of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, this book advances innovations in the emerging practices of rhetorical field methods by applying rhetorical criticism to interview data in a new way and provides a non-western perspective on communication and rhetorical theory for which there has been continual calls. Craig M. Pinkerton (Ph.D., Ohio University) is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Denison University. He is an educator and researcher of communication with an emphasis in rhetoric, public culture, and qualitative methods combined with interdisciplinary inquiry in Southeast Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies. He has won over fifteen academic awards and honors, including the prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for the study of Thai language. Since 2007, he has taught over 20 courses on a wide variety of subjects on communication, including public speaking and presentation communication, argumentation, rhetoric, public advocacy and activism, marketing and public relations, organizational development, interpersonal conflict management, and the dark side of media. From 2011 to 2015, he lived in Thailand teaching communication and researching Buddhist public advocacy and activism.
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    ISBN: 9783031416958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 373 p. 6 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Popular Culture. ; Human ecology ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. “Introduction: Reading the Speculative Animal” -- Chapter 2. From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint -- Chapter 3. “Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts -- Chapter 4. Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in 2-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games -- Chapter 5. Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk -- Chapter 6. Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom -- Chapter 7. “Muzzle for the Queen”: Settler-Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction -- Chapter 8. Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête -- Chapter 9. Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-Evolution -- Chapter 10. To “Jump” into an Animal’s Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North -- Chapter 11. “alien guest, courting the goodwill of a demonic microbe”: Living Poetry, NHAs and “Aliens Among Us” in Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 -- Chapter 12. Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja -- Chapter 13. A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy -- Chapter 14. Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon -- Chapter 15. To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle -- Chapter 16. A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability -- Chapter 17. Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke’s Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin) -- Chapter 18. “The Face of Extinction”: On Haunted Futures with Machine Animals -- Chapter 19. Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction’s Resurrection of Dinosaurs -- Chapter 20. A “speculation built on fact”: On Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future.
    Abstract: “This is a strong contribution to the field(s) of animal studies and science fiction. Indeed, I would recommend it in both fields separately as well as in the combined field where I work. I am especially impressed by the generous range of texts, from bacteria to games to film to novels, and with some recognition of work beyond the British/American hegemony.” —Joan Gordon, Professor Emerita, Nassau Community College; Co-editor, Science Fiction Studies Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source texts—including novels, short stories, poetry, film and TV, photography, erotica, video games, and urban planning documents—that explore the ways works of science fiction can transform how we see and interact with nonhuman others. With an eye toward more just multispecies futures, it argues that speculative imaginaries can be pivotal in changing attitudes toward and understandings of nonhuman animals in our world today. Chapters appeal to those interested in biopolitics, posthumanism, new materialism, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, ocean humanities, postcolonial studies, critical race studies, Indigenous studies, global sf studies, film studies, and food studies. Taken together, the collection works to showcase a diverse and growing field of scholarly inquiry into animals and science fiction. Nora Castle is an IAS Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. She recently completed her PhD, entitled, “Food Futures: Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Science Fiction,” which explored the future of food in/as science fiction through meat, plants, kitchens, and farms as thematic streams. Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton. Her project investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through culture, science communication and international policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031547638
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 202 p. 122 illus., 108 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 940
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: This book gathers the proceedings of the 4th Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics, held at San Salvador, El Salvador, on November 15–17, 2023. This book presents recent advances in the modeling, design, control, and development of autonomous and robotic systems and explores current exciting applications and future challenges of these technologies. The scope of this book covers a wide range of research fields associated with automation and robotics encountered within engineering, scientific research, and practice. These topics are related to control theory, Robot Operating System (ROS), robot design, collaborative robots, artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensing, field and service robotics, human robot interaction and interfaces, modeling of robotic systems, industry 4.0, and the design of new robotic platforms.
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    ISBN: 9783031494468
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 339 p.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
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    Keywords: Economics ; Economics. ; Latin America ; Economic history. ; Institutionalisation of Political Economy ; International Circulation of Economic Ideas ; New Latin American Republics ; Trade Policy ; Translations of Political Economy ; Late Enlightenment ; Spanish Liberalism ; Monetary Policy ; Public Finances ; Classical Political Economy ; Atlantic History ; Spanish Exile ; José Joaquín de Mora
    Abstract: 1. Introduction. A distinctive proponent of classical political economy in the Spanish-speaking world -- 2. The Absolutism six-year Period (1814-1820). Encountering Smith and Say -- 3. The Liberal Triennium (1820-1823). Mora, Bentham and radical liberalism -- 4. London (1824-1827). The approach to British Classical political economy -- 5. Argentina (1827-1828). An early attempt to introduce economic liberalism in Hispanic America -- 6. Chile (1828-1832): 'El Mercurio Chileno' and the model of economic development for the Hispanic American republics -- 7. Peru and Bolivia. Teaching, journalism and diplomacy -- 8. Back to Spain (1843-1853). The debate on free trade in Spain under the sway of moderate liberalism -- 9. Mora and the Enciclopedia Moderna’s (1853-1855) entries on Political Economy and Public Finance -- 10. Mora and the articles for the journal 'La América': Dialoguing once again with Latin America from Spain -- 11. Epilogue. The art of dissemination.
    Abstract: This book examines the dissemination, adaptation, and application of classical economic ideas within the Hispanic world through the life of José Joaquín de Mora. Focusing on the decades surrounding the creation of the Latin American republics, it highlights how ideas from the classical political economy, including liberalism and free trade, were pioneered in the work of Mora and disseminated across the Spanish speaking world. Particular attention is given to the influence of Mora in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia and how he helped shape their economic development models and political environments. This book examines the essential role José Joaquín de Mora played in the ideological and political modernisation of Latin America. It will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and the political economy. Jesús Astigarraga is Professor of Economics at the University of Zaragoza. Javier Usoz is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Zaragoza. Juan Zabalza is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Alicante.
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    ISBN: 9783031530708
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 264 p. 17 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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    Keywords: Economic history. ; Macroeconomics. ; Economic development. ; Economic policy. ; Foreign Direct Investment ; EU Periphery ; Ireland ; Late Industrialisation ; Late Developing Countries ; Irish Economy ; Celtic Tiger ; Irish indigenous companies ; Sectoral growth in Ireland ; Irish economic growth
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Before the Boom: The Historical Background -- Chapter 3: A Review of Explanations for the Boom -- Chapter 4: Sectoral Growth and Export Earnings -- Chapter 5: Irish Indigenous Companies -- Chapter 6: Foreign-Owned Companies -- Chapter 7: The End of the Boom -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.
    Abstract: This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and advantages inherent to this position. It discusses the risks involved in remaining reliant on foreign companies, exploring how in Ireland’s case the rapidly growing economy required active, interventionist and imaginative policy measures rather than relying primarily on free market forces. The book also offers an estimation of the value of the net foreign earnings associated with different categories of exports after deducting the profit outflows and payments for imported inputs, revealing a number of findings about the importance of Irish indigenous companies and services during this time. It shows that Irish indigenous companies, assisted by industrial policy measures, played a significant part, as did the services sector, alongside the more visible and widely recognised role of foreign multinationals in high-tech manufacturing. Offering fresh insights and analyses more than 15 years after the long boom ended at the precipice of the global financial crisis, this book will be a useful resource for economic historians, scholars of political economy and macroeconomic policy, as well as those interested in modern Irish history more broadly. Eoin O’Malley was a researcher at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, for twenty-five years. He has been a consultant to the European Commission and to various public sector bodies in Ireland including the National Economic and Social Council. He was also a Research Associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
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    ISBN: 9783031525858
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 290 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Science ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: Chapter 1, Logical Doubts Concerning Induction -- Chapter 2, Socrates and the Skeptical Craft -- Chapter 3, The Active Fallibilism of a Situational Skeptic -- Chapter 4, Pyrrhonian, a School of Skeptics -- Chapter 5, Freedom by Confinement -- Chapter 6, The Sphinx -- Chapter 7, Evidence and Its Refutation -- Chapter 8, Francis Bacon’s Elenchus -- Chapter 9, A Mathematical Method for Physics -- Chapter 10, A Foundational Skepticism -- Chapter 11, Applying the Foundational Method -- Chapter 12, Applying The Experimental Philosophy.
    Abstract: The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least occasionally, to find true models of reality. The new methods may be contrasted with all those currently available that employ “coherence theories” of knowledge. Under this designation are grouped positions that can seem very different (such as those of Poincaré, Duhem, Popper, Hempel, Quine, Kuhn, and Feyerabend) but are united by the idea that the most general statements of science are merely hypotheses. They may be conjectures, opinions, conventions, posits, paradigms, or even myths. The most we can claim to know from such generalities is that they are internally consistent and coherent with empirical data. Consistency is insufficient to establish the truth of a conceptual system because many different systems, perhaps an infinite number, can be logically consistent and cohere with recorded data. Such is the well-known problem of the empirical under-determination of theories. Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge suggests a new methodology that solves this fundamental problem of knowledge. Jagdish Hattiangadi is Professor of Philosophy at York University, Canada.
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    ISBN: 9783031417375
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XLIV, 253 p. 15 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Social media.
    Abstract: Chapter 1-Introduction: European Public Sphere, Populism and Twitter -- Chapter2- Data and Methodology in the Twitter EP2019 Analysis. -PART I Democratic Corporatist Countries. Chapter 3- The Netherlands: Populism from Margins to the Mainstream -- Chapter 4- Germany: Transnationalisation of Populist Radical Right -- Chapter 5- Finland: Populist Polarisation of Finnish Political Communication -- PART II Polarised Pluralist Countries. Chapter 6- Italy: Mixed Populism and Agenda-Setting in Election Campaign -- Chapter 7- Spain: Rising Right-Wing Populism -- PART III Liberal Countries. Chapter 8- Ireland: Emerging Right-Wing Populism -- Chapter 9- The UK: Brexit and Competing Populism -- Chapter 10- Comparison and Conclusions: What Twitter Campaigns Tell Us about Populism and Europeanisation of National Public Spheres?.
    Abstract: This volume approaches the relationship between European public sphere and political communication in the framework of establishing populism and social media. The empirical analysis focuses on the comparison between different EU countries during the 2019 EP elections campaign. The data for the analysis was collected real time from Twitter in the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain, Ireland and the UK. during a month period and are analyzed with both computerized quantitative and manual qualitative methods. The book introduces a new perspective in conceptualizing populism in comparative analysis, in which populism is understood rather as an antagonist logic of political identity formation than pre-defined political ideologies, movements or party cleavages. We approach implications of populist construction of ‘us’ and ‘not us’ in national contexts of 2019 EP election campaigns to find out the relationality between different political actors and parties. A special attention is paid to national/transnational and European/Eurosceptic tendencies in campaign rhetoric. By using a unique idea of ‘hashtag publics’ we approach the common Twitter discussions around the elections and ask: what particular topics and themes did different political actors distribute over Twitter during the 2019 EP elections, how were various topics and actors linked to each other, and how were campaign agendas and actors linked to populism? Juha Herkman is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Emilia Palonen works as a Senior University Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Helsinki. Chapter-No.1,Chapter-No.4 and Chapter-No. 8 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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    ISBN: 9783031503924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 342 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Keywords: Africa ; Human ecology ; Food science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Religion, Climate change and Food security in Africa -- Chapter 2. Prophetic action, Climate Change, food security and SDG 2 in Africa -- Chapter 3. Islam, Climate Change, food security and SDG 2 in Morocco -- Chapter 4. Religion, Climate Change and food availability and accessibility in Africa -- Chapter 5. Religious Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Security in Ghana -- Chapter 6. Rastafarianism, climate change and Crop Failure in Africa -- Chapter 7. Catholicism, climate change and pests in Africa -- Chapter 8. Farming God's Way to avert crop failure and pests in Malawi -- Chapter 9. Crop diseases and Food insecurity in Africa: A Hindu Perspective -- Chapter 10. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Food Security in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Bota Reshupa (Herbal Porridge) among the Ndau of Zimbabwe -- Chapter 11. Indigenous knowledge systems, climate Change and food security in Kenya -- Chapter 12. African Women, Religion and Food Securityin the Context of Pandemics -- Chapter 13. Gender, Religion, food security and climate change in Africa -- Chapter 14. Women, Religion and food insecurity of urban people in South Africa -- Chapter 15. Climate-related conflicts, religion and food production and distribution in Africa -- Chapter 16. Faith-Based Organisations and Food Security in Africa: A Critical Review -- Chapter 17. Pentecostalism, Theology of Survival and Food Security in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 18. Religion, food security and resilience of Rural people in Ghana -- Chapter 19. Religion, Food security and Climate Change Mitigation: A Case of Luangwa Valley Women of Present Eastern Zambia.
    Abstract: This book addresses the relationship between religion, climate change, and food security in Africa. Contributors to this volume interrogate how and to what extent religion in Africa serves as a resource (or confounding factor) in responding to Sustainable Development Goals 13 (action on climate change) and 2 (achieve Zero Hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture). Approaching the theme from diverse disciplinary and methodological angles, contributors probe the potential role of religion in Africa to accelerate the achievement of these two SDGs, especially the role of religion with regard to food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and food systems stability. Loreen Maseno is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion, Theology and Philosophy, Maseno University, Kenya and Research fellow, University of South Africa (UNISA). David Andrew Omona is an Associate Professor of Ethics and International Relations and Dean School of Social Sciences at Uganda Christian University. Ezra Chitando is Professor of History and Phenomenology of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe. Sophia Chirongoma is a Senior Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.
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    ISBN: 9783031549861
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 145 p. 25 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Classroom Companion: Economics
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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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    ISBN: 9783031540677
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 168 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 146
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    Abstract: Introduction -- Part 1: What a Legal Obligation is -- Toward a Minimal Conception of Legal Obligation -- What is a Legal Obligation? -- Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives on Legal Obligation -- Why Any Legal Positivist Idea of Legal Obligation is Untenable: A Kantian-Gewirthian Synthesis -- Gustav Radbruch’s Theory of Legal Obligation -- Part 3: Forms of Legal Obligation -- Is There a Legal Duty not to Harm in Tort Law? -- Reflections on the Justifiability of Authority: Raz vs. Wolff.
    Abstract: This volume collects six original essays by internationally respected researchers who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation. It brings together works that innovatively address key dimensions of the current debates concerning legal obligation from different and, in some cases, even opposing theoretical perspectives. As a result, the collection offers a comprehensive discussion of legal obligation that promises to significantly advance our understanding of the obligatory dimension of law. What specifically connects the contributions gathered here is one common thread: coming to terms with a notion – legal obligation – that is of both practical and theoretical importance. On the one hand, it is widely regarded as a fundamental legal concept by legal practitioners and laypeople alike, as not only judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and juries but also ordinary citizens make extensive use of obligation-related terms and discourses. On the other hand, the notion of legal obligation is of paramount significance for the theory of law. Indeed, even legal theorists who, quite understandably, refuse to reduce the law to a mere obligation-imposing device and opt instead for a view in which the normative dimension of the law also encompasses powers, rights, permissions, privileges and immunities, duly acknowledge the centrality of legal obligation for the understanding and conceptualisation of law. Hence the importance of the treatments presented in this volume.
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    ISBN: 9783031482519
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 131 p. 20 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Art ; Art, Modern ; Medicine and the humanities. ; People with disabilities
    Abstract: Introduction: Curating this Collection -- Chapter 1: Disarming Venus -- Chapter 2: Sculpting Body Ideals -- Chapter 3: Performing Amputation -- Chapter 4: Staring Back and Forth: The Photographs of Kevin Connolly -- Chapter 5: Cripping Aesthetics: The Work of Persimmon Blackbridge -- Chapter 6: Watching One’s Back: Self-Portraits of Disabled Women’s Backs as Provocative and Protective -- Conclusion: Looking Forward.
    Abstract: 'An enlightening collection of work exploring the intersection between art and disability. Millett-Gallant’s writing illuminates the transformative power of perspective and its ability to challenge and redefine social norms.' Kevin Michael Connolly 'The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art has for more than a decade been the primary, indispensable resource for thinking about the myriad ways that disability is represented by contemporary artists. This second edition updates and extends Ann Millett-Gallant’s groundbreaking text.' Robert McRuer, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (2006) Operating from the position that disability offers "an opportunity for alternative and unique insights," Ann Millett-Gallant presents readers with engaging analyses of the work of Mary Duffy, Marc Quinn, Joel-Peter Witkin, Kevin Connolly, Persimmon Blackbridge, Sandie Yi, and others, which challenges prevailing stereotypes and assumptions about corporeal difference. This long-awaited revision and extension of Millet-Gallant's groundbreaking The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art (2010) is a must-read for anyone interested in art and disability. Keri Watson, Co-editor, The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022) The second edition offers an essential update to the foundational first edition, The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art. Featuring updated chapters and case studies, this second edition will not only expand on the first edition but will bring a new focus to contemporary disabled artists and their embodied, multimedia work. Ann Millett-Gallant, PhD is Senior Lecturer for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Her online courses combine art history, visual culture, disability studies, and women’s and gender studies, and her books include The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art; Re-Membering: Putting Mind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain Injury; and the coedited volumes Disability and Art History and Disability and Art History: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. Millett-Gallant’s artworks have been displayed at universities and galleries in North Carolina. Her website is annmg.com.
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    ISBN: 9783031535451
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 173 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Keywords: Theater ; Theater. ; Cultural industries.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Irish Repertory Theatre Company: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway -- Chapter 2: Charlotte Moore and Ciarán O’Reilly: “Smitten With Magic of the Theatre” -- Chapter 3: Opening Season: 1988-1989 and Season 2: 1989-1990: The Plough and the Stars, Whistle in the Dark, Yeats! A Celebration, and Philadelphia, Here I Come! -- Chapter 4: Grandchild of Kings: Harold Prince Takes the Helm, and Highlights From Seasons 3-7: 1990-1995 -- Chapter 5: Renting a Home in Chelsea, and Highlights from Season 8: 1995-1996 -- Chapter 6: The Irish … and How They Got That Way: Highlights from Seasons 9-15: 1996-2003 -- Chapter 7: Purchasing Their Home in Chelsea and Highlights from Seasons 16-22: 2003-2009 -- Chapter 8: From Renovation and Reopening to a Global Pandemic, Plus Highlights from Seasons 23-34: 2010-2022 -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Ongoing Success of the Irish Rep, and What Lies Ahead.
    Abstract: The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway is the first book-length history of the multi-award winning Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre Company, from its beginning in 1988 to its thirty-fifth season in 2023. The book considers how the Irish Rep’s plays and musicals reflect the Irish diaspora, the relationship between Ireland and America, and what it means to be Irish and Irish American, both historically, and in the twenty-first century, including how the Irish Rep is showcasing more diverse voices and experiences, from women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and Irish and Irish American people of color. Maria Szasz holds degrees from the University of British Columbia, Emerson College, and the University of New Mexico. Her publications include Brian Friel and America (2013), and “Lyra McKee (1990-2019): ‘How Uncomfortable Conversations Can Save Lives,’” in The Rose and Irish Identity (2021). Szasz is a second generation UNM faculty member who teaches Theatre History in the UNM Honors College. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband and their garden.
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    ISBN: 9783031558931
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 318 p. 26 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; International economic relations. ; Human rights.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Shadow Banks, the IMF and the Politics of Financial Crisis -- Chapter 3: Financial Crisis, The IMF, and State Repression -- Chapter 4: IMF Programs, Shadow Banks, and Financial Crisis -- Chapter 5: State Repression, the IMF, and Financial Crisis: Empirical Evidence -- Chapter 6: The Fund, Financial Crisis and Repression in Turkey -- Chapter 7: Financial Crisis Prevention and Repression in India and Brazil -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: Why do financial crises occur under some IMF programs? When does state-perpetrated repression increase in the aftermath of such financial crises? Mukherjee and Yadav provide a compelling theoretical answer to these crucial questions, moving beyond earlier work to examine when a financial crisis occurs in states assisted by the IMF and how this leads to repression of human rights. They analyze a global sample of developing states and carefully examine the Brazil, India, and Turkey cases to evaluate their claims. The IMF, Financial Crisis and Repression of Human Rights is an important book that should be widely read by scholars and policy practitioners. -Quan Li, Professor of Political Science, The Bush School of Government & Public Service,Texas A&M University This book seeks to answer a number of key questions about the relationship between the IMF, developing states and the impact of financial crises on human rights abuses, including: Why do some but not other IMF-assisted developing states experience the joint outbreak of currency and sudden reversal crises under the Fund’s program?; What are some of the short-term political ramifications of such crises?; Why do human rights violation by governments increase sharply in the wake of twin currency and sudden reversal crisis in some but not all crisis-affected countries? Bumba Mukherjee is Professor of the Department of Political Science at Penn State University, United States. Vineeta Yadav is Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at Penn State University, United States.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 351 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Asia ; Economics. ; Economic history. ; China ; Economic development. ; Chinese Crony Comprador Capitalism ; market socialism ; economic development in China ; market Leninism ; princelings ; state-owned enterprises ; New class ; semi-peripheral development ; the rise of China ; state capitalism
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I -- 2. From ‘New Class’ to ‘New Bourgeoisie’: An Unintended Legacy of the Cultural Revolution -- 3. Market Socialism or Market Leninism? The institutionalization of China’s Crony Capitalism -- Part II -- 4. The Origins of China’s Comprador Capitalism -- 5. The Rise of China in a Semi-Peripheral Orbit -- 6. The new ‘Cold War’ and Xi Jinping’s ‘Reverse Course’: The Nazification of the Chinese Economy? -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This timely and highly original book mercilessly dissects the sources of China’s impending ‘imperial decline’. Its unique insights rest equally on western and Chinese scholarship and on a large measure of inside knowledge. It offers a trenchant comparative analysis of the evolution of China’s ‘decrepit Leninist Leviathan’ from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping. And its conclusion that the economic illiteracy and personal venality of the Communist leadership has locked China into dependent development and helped summon up the ‘new Cold War’ is brilliantly provocative.” – MacGregor Knox, Stevenson Professor of International History emeritus, The London School of Economics and Political Science “Jianyong Yue’s book provides a freshening and insightful perspective on China’s development over the past several decades. It is very impressive in its historical depth, conceptual power, and analytical rigor; its explanation of China’s economic ‘successes’ and their sociopolitical quintessence hits the nail on the head.” – Guoguang Wu, Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center on China’s Economy and Institutions This book offers a multidisciplinary redefinition of China's model of crony comprador capitalism. The author argues that this model emerged through the fusion of market Leninism and global capitalism in the early 1990s within the post-Cold War and post-Communist global context. While driving robust export-led growth, this approach hindered China's structural transformation and limited its ascent, ironically leading to the regime's accelerating totalitarian turn and the onset of a new Cold War. In line with the call for ‘Capitalism 3.0,’ the book advocates Western decoupling from China and promoting the country's transition to a democratic developmental state, fostering a safer world for democracy over autocracy. It will be of interest to academics and policy-makers in a wide range of fields, including political economy, political studies, international relations, and economic history. Jianyong Yue is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and previously taught Chinese politics and development at LSE and King’s College London. He published China’s Rise in the Age of Globalization: Myth or Reality? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
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    ISBN: 9783031546426
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 276 p. 18 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Springer Studies in Alternative Economics
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    Keywords: Schools of economics. ; Economics. ; Macroeconomics. ; Labor economics. ; Concordian economics ; Labor Policy ; Industrial Policy ; Monetary Policy ; History of economic thought ; Benjamin Franklin ; Henry George ; Louis D. Brandeis ; History of economics ; Economic justice ; Somism ; Relationalism ; Monetary System ; Fiscal Policy ; Ownership rights
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Opening our Minds to Concordian Economics -- Part I. Intellectual Interdependence -- Chapter 2. Politics and Economics -- Chapter 3. The Interdependence of Economic Rights and Responsibilities -- Chapter 4. Peaceful March Toward Concordianism - With a Graceful Walk Away from 1% Capitalism and Marxism -- Part II. Financial Interdependence -- Chapter 5. King Cash -- Chapter 6. Whence Money? -- Chapter 7. Where-to Money? -- Chapter 8. Project Financial Independence -- Part III. Physical Interdependence -- Chapter 9. Toward Economic, Ecological, and Human Interdependence -- Chapter 10. Two Published and Two Unpublishable (?) Urban Plans -- Part IV. Human Interdependence -- Chapter 11. Ethics in Concordian Economics -- Chapter 12. Whence poverty? -- Chapter 13. Oh, the Bancor -- Chapter 14. Economics of Justice and Peace in the World.
    Abstract: This is the second volume of a two-part series on Concordian economics, an innovative paradigm that builds upon the Aristotelian-Aquinian tradition of economic justice. Having introduced Concordian economics in the first volume as a compelling research paradigm that addresses the limitations of mainstream economics, this second installment takes the exploration further by examining its real-world applications in four policy areas. With a focus on industrial organization, labor markets, monetary, and fiscal policy, the author advocates for a transformative approach to economic rights and responsibilities. By promoting a moral economy, this book offers a substitute to the Pac-Man approach to industrial organization. The book challenges traditional notions by discussing the ownership rights concerning larger corporations and offering visionary solutions, in the steps of Louis O, Kelso, empowering workers and employees to participate in the ownership of robots and artificial intelligence. The Fed has given a nod of approval to the creation of a new Concordian monetary system. Following the advice of eight Nobel Laureates in economics, the proposed fiscal reforms emphasize taxing only the value of land and natural resources, ushering in a society where the use of our natural resources and machines serves the common good, economic freedom thrives, and forced income redistribution becomes obsolete. This book illustrates a vivid vision of a world founded on universal economic rights and responsibilities, offering fresh perspectives on a more just and sustainable future. It appeals to scholars and students of economics and related fields, as well as anyone interested in a free but just economic system.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVIII, 489 p. 177 illus., 124 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 200
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: A Method for Estimating the Number of Diseases in Computed Tomography Reports of the Japanese Medical Image Database (J-MID): Variations among Facilities -- Enabling Dynamic Vulnerability Assessment for Multi-web Application Using Executable Directed Acyclic Graph -- Discovery of RESTful Web Services Based on the Openapi 3.0 Standard with Semantic Annotations -- Perfresolv: A Geo-distributed Approach for Performance Analysis of Public Dns Resolvers Based on Domain Popularity -- Dars: Empowering Trust in Blockchain-based Real-world Applications with a Decentralized Anonymous Reputation System -- An Empirical Comparison of Outlier Detection Methods for Identifying Grey-sheep Users in Recommender Systems -- Adaptive Consensus: Enhancing Robustness in Dynamic Environments -- Cottontrust: Reliability and Traceability in Cotton Supply Chain Using Self-sovereign Identity -- Interoperability Between Evm-based Blockchains -- Stand-up Indulgent Gathering on Lines for Myopic Luminous Robots -- Iot Identity Management Systems: The State-of-the-art, Challenges and a Novel Architecture -- Starm: Streaming Association Rules Mining in High-dimensional Data -- Regulation Compliance System for Iot Environments: Gdpr Compliance as a Use-case -- Two-dimensional Models of Markov Processes for System Availability -- Enabling Ai in Agriculture 4.: A Blockchain-based Mobile Crowdsensing Architecture.
    Abstract: Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution and there are many emerging areas of information networking and their applications. Heterogeneous networking supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence, and actuations are emerging as a critically important disruptive computer class based on a new platform, networking structure and interface that enable novel, low-cost and high-volume applications. Several of such applications have been difficult to realize because of many interconnection problems. To fulfill their large range of applications different kinds of networks need to collaborate and wired and next generation wireless systems should be integrated in order to develop high performance computing solutions to problems arising from the complexities of these networks. This book covers the theory, design and applications of computer networks, distributed computing, and information systems. The aim of the book “Advanced Information Networking and Applications” is to provide latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to the emerging areas of information networking and applications.
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    ISBN: 9783031531484
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 181 p. 35 illus., 31 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1131
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Biomedical engineering. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: 1. Demystifying: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Neurodegenerative Diseases -- 2. Role Of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things in Neurodegenerative Diseases -- 3. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) on Neurogenerative Diseases -- 4. Clinical Genomics to Drug Discovery Using Machine Learning for Neurodegenerative disorders: A Future Perspective -- 5. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Monitoring using Explainable AI -- 6. Prevalence of Dementia in India -- 7. Exploring AI's Role in Managing Neurodegenerative Disorders: Possibilities and Hurdles -- 8. Artificial Intelligence in Neuro Degenerative Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges -- 9. Ethical considerations: Case Scenarios.
    Abstract: This book explores the current state of healthcare practice and provides a roadmap for harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern cognitive technologies for neurogenerative diseases. The main goal of this book is to look at how these techniques can be used to classify patients with neurodegenerative diseases by extracting data from multiple modalities. It demonstrates that the growing development of computer-aided diagnosis systems has a lot of potential to help with the diagnostic process. It offers an analysis of the prospective and perils in implementing such state of the art. Progressive brain disorders with a high prevalence in the general population include Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, Huntington's disease, and motor neuron disease. Worldwide, it is estimated that 33 million people have Alzheimer's disease, and 10 million people have Parkinson's disease. The global health economy is significantly impacted by these disorders, which affect both the patient and the caregivers. Various diagnostic techniques are used for differential diagnoses, such as brain imaging, EEG analysis, molecular analysis, and cognitive, psychological, and physical examination. The book aims to develop effective treatments, enhance patient quality of life, and extend life expectancy. It focuses on novel artificial intelligence approaches to clarify the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders and provide early diagnosis. The authors compile recent developments based on machine learning and deep learning techniques to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases using imaging, genetic, and clinical data. The authors support initiatives and methods that aim to improve the application of algorithms in diagnostic practice.
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    ISBN: 9783031537004
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 302 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Communication in politics. ; Intercultural communication. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 2. Sub-Saharan Africa -- 3. Transnational Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 4. Digital Media -- 5. Jihad and Digital Media in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 6. Case Study--Al-Shabaab's Digital Media -- 7. Case Study--Boko Haram's Digital Media -- 8. Case Study--The ADF's Digital Media -- 9. Online Jihadist Magazines -- 10. Thematic Analysis of Online Jihadist Magazines -- 11. Discussion, Theoretical Implications, and Solutions.
    Abstract: This book examines how jihadist groups in sub-Saharan Africa have managed to advance their extremist agenda and recruit new followers thanks to digital media fueled by the information revolution since the dawn of the 21st century. This examination is based on a mixture of historical accounts, contemporary descriptions, case studies, theoretical applications, and an in-depth applied study (in the late chapters of the manuscript). An important conclusion is that the progress of jihadism in sub-Saharan Africa has been commensurate with the development and availability of digital media. This book breaks new ground in three ways. It is the first major academic work to devote most of its content exclusively to the use of digital media by jihadist groups in that region. Examples of jihadist digital media include social networking sites, online instructional videos, propaganda videos, and online jihadist magazines―among others. Secondly, it provides detailed case studies of both well-knownAfrican groups (e.g., Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram) and lesser-known ones― e.g., the Allied Democratic Forces in the Congo (which have, nevertheless, wreaked so much damage). Lastly, it is the first book to include an in-depth thematic analysis of online jihadist magazines―Inspire, Dabiq, Rumiyah, and Gaidi Mtaani―on their content dedicated to sub-Saharan Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031369544
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 115 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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    Keywords: Creative writing. ; Ecocriticism. ; Literature and technology. ; Mass media and literature. ; Literature ; Feminism and literature.
    Abstract: 1 -- Introduction: Digital Life Writing, Women Vloggers, and Rural Life -- 2 Li Ziqi: Narrativising Rural China through Vlogging and the Digital Ecobiography -- 3 Dianxi Xiaoge: Constructing Rural Life Vlogging, Cultural Ecology and the Digital Archiving of Rural Community -- 4 Jonna Jinton: Ecospiritualty, the Walking Body and Landscape -- 5 The Green Witch: The Celebration of Witchcraft, Beauty and Wild Remedies -- 6 The Cottage Fairy: Becoming Rural Dweller to Resist the Attention Economy -- 7 Conclusions: Rural Life Vloggers Becoming Ecofeminist Life Writers.
    Abstract: This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global icons in the last five years, and whose digital projects are a form of ‘nature life writing’ in the Anthropocene. Li Ziqi, Dianxi Xiaoge, Jonna Jinton, Annabel Margaret and Paola Merrill draw on their culture and use technological equipment and social media (especially YouTube) to build dynamic narratives about living in the countryside. Through their online platform they show unique, picturesque footage of their daily routines and rural environments, and present the ways in which they nurture connections between people in the community and animals and landscapes. The study shows how, paradoxically, their digital life writing projects attempt to resist the attention economy but at the same time use strategies to sustain it. Through the various lenses of ecobiography, cultural ecology, digital archiving, ecospirituality, phytography, and ethological poetics, this book also foregrounds the significance of plant life and landscapes – they are reminders of how human lives are inextricably entangled with traditional values and the natural world. Alberta Natasia Adji is a contemporary author and researcher in women’s life narratives. She completed her PhD on auto/biographical fiction at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, in 2023. Her autobiographical project focuses on family history of Chinese Indonesians from 1959 to 2014. Adji was awarded the 2023 School of Arts and Humanities Research Medal by ECU for the quality of her doctoral research thesis. Before coming to Australia, she has published two novels in Indonesian language, Youth Adagio (2013) and Dante: The Faery and the Wizard (2014). Since then, she has continued publishing her short fiction works in New Writing, Meniscus, and TEXT as well as refereed articles in academic journals.
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    ISBN: 9783031477249
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 879 p. 380 illus., 339 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 823
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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.
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    ISBN: 9783031542770
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 246 p. 68 illus., 59 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Big Data 148
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Big data. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Contactless Video-based Vital-sign Measurement Methods: A Data-driven Review -- Enhancing STEAM in Education 4.0: A Review of Data-driven Technological Improvements -- State-of-the-Art Review in Explainable Machine Learning for Smart-Cities Applications -- Exploring the Connection Between Digital Systems and Sustainability: Synergy for a Brighter Future.
    Abstract: This book focuses on new perspectives and applications of data-driven innovation technologies, applied artificial intelligence, applied machine learning and deep learning, data science, and topics related to transforming data into value. It includes theory and use cases to help readers understand the basics of data-driven innovation and to highlight the applicability of the technologies. It emphasizes how the data lifecycle is applied in current technologies in different business domains and industries, such as advanced materials, healthcare and medicine, resource optimization, control and automation, among others. This book is useful for anyone interested in data-driven innovation for smart technologies, as well as those curious in implementing cutting-edge technologies to solve impactful artificial intelligence, data science, and related information technology and communication problems.
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    ISBN: 9783031560422
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (V, 80 p. 34 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Economics
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    Keywords: Industrial organization. ; Business logistics. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Labor economics. ; International trade. ; Industries. ; Offshoring ; Deindustrialisation ; Global value chains ; Nearshoring ; Reshoring ; Employment ; Value added ; Global markets ; Manufacturing ; Regionalization ; Automotive industry ; Europe ; North America ; Industrial renaissance ; Automation ; Globalization ; Pandemic ; Geopolitics
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Deindustrialisation in the New Millennium -- Chapter 3. Empirical Analysis of Global Value Chains -- Chapter 4. Regionalisation of Global Value Chains in Manufacturing -- Chapter 5. Deindustrialisation Over Time -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book analyses the possible regionalization of global value chains, particularly in manufacturing. Amidst calls for an industrial renaissance in Europe and a resurgence of manufacturing jobs in the United States, the dynamics of global value chains have been reshaped by global pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and increased automation. Employing a multi-regional input–output model, the book scrutinizes the decline in offshoring afer the mid-2010s. It sheds light on regionalization as a pivotal force redefining global markets, and focuses on Europe and North America, revealing the strengthening of regional ties. Discussing future challenges, the book will appeal to scholars, students, and researchers, as well as practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of (de)globalization nuances connected to the evolving role of manufacturing in global value chains.
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    ISBN: 9783031567063
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 268 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Catholic Church. ; Religion and politics.
    Abstract: Part One – What Did the Council Teach and What’s Wrong with It? -- Chapter One: Why Study Vatican II on Church-State Relations? -- Chapter Two: Survey of Conciliar Documents on Ecclesiology and the Lay Apostolate in Politics -- chapter Three: Defining the Debate in Political Theology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Two ways of classifying political theology to be rejected -- 3.3 A qualified acceptance of an alternative classification -- Chapter Four: Reading DH through the Lens of Ecclesial Ethics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 'Not Late Enough: The Divided Mind of Dignitatis Humanae Personae' -- 4.3 Distinguishing the arguments that are distinctive to ecclesial ethics -- 4.4 First argument: DH's distinctions between nature-grace, reason-revelation -- 4.5 Second argument: distinction between religion and politics -- Chapter Five: Reading LG, AA, and GS through the Lens of Ecclesial Ethics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The structure of Cavanaugh's argument -- 5.3 The problematic ecclesiology underlying Catholic Action -- 5.4 The elusive presence of Vatican II in Cavanaugh's thought -- 5.5 The critique of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church -- 5.6 The critique of the Decree on the Lay Apostolate -- 5.7 The critique of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World -- 5.8 Summary of critique -- Chapter Six: A Critique of Hauerwas and Cavanaugh -- 6.1 Why Hauerwas and Cavanaugh are not sectarians -- 6.2 The modern state as an irredeemable foe -- 6.3 The church as a contrast society -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Part Two – How Can the Church’s Teaching be Corrected? -- Chapter Seven: Methodological Introduction -- Chapter Eight: Powers and Principalities in the New Testament -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Scholarship on the Powers -- 8.3 The Powers: Created, fallen, defeated -- 8.4 Political authority as one of the Powers -- 8.5 Oliver O'Donovan on the Powers and political authority -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Chapter Nine: Deliverance from the Powers in the church -- 9.1 The sacramental shape of the church -- 9.2 Baptism -- 9.3 Eucharist -- 9.4 Participating in the threefold office: Prophet, Priest, King -- 9.5 Ordained ministry -- Chapter Ten: Learning from the Ambiguous Legacy of Christendom -- 10.1 Bearing witness before the Powers -- 10.2 Mission leading to martyrdom or mutual service -- 10.3 From Two Cities to Two Swords -- 10.4 The Gospel’s impact on political authorities -- Chapter Eleven – Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: “To revisit the legacy of Vatican II as it attempted to reconstruct the relation of church and state around a theology of the laity; to honour its ambitions to escape from the straitjacket of a two-level theory of authority; to enrich it with concepts drawn from the primary missionary impulses of the apostolic church and the debates of contemporary political theology; those are the very considerable ambitions of this constantly stimulating book. It should prove rewarding to Christians in all churches, taking one major Christian achievement of the twentieth century as a starting point for an ecumenical approach to the challenges of political life in the twenty first.” —Oliver O'Donovan, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Should religion and politics be kept apart? What should be the relationship between the church and the state? M.Y. Ciftci answers these questions by studying the most important event in the recent history of the Catholic Church: The Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The book provides a new interpretation of the Council’s teaching on church-state relations to better appreciate its flaws and need for reform. By paying attention to the (often overlooked) importance given by the Council to the lay apostolate, it reveals how the Council did not reform, as is often thought, but retained a flawed conception of the laity’s role in politics. It then proposes a new framework for understanding church-state relations using the ressourcement method of returning to scripture and tradition, and by a critical dialogue with Oliver O’Donovan and various Protestant biblical scholars of the Powers in the New Testament. Ciftci shows how fruitful an self-consciously ecumenical approach can be for political theology. As most ressourcement theologians have overlooked political issues, and since ecumenical theology rarely touches on issues of church-state relations, this work makes an original contribution to the ressourcement project and to ecumenism. M. Y. Ciftci is Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He was previously Etienne Gilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto.
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    ISBN: 9783031562150
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 257 p. 29 illus.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy 4
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Mathematical logic. ; Computer arithmetic and logic units. ; Logic. ; Mathematics.
    Abstract: Part I: Logic, Sets, and Numbers -- Chapter 1. First-order Logic -- Chapter 2. Logical seeing -- Chapter 3. What is a Number? -- Chapter 4. Seeing the Number Structures -- Chapter 5. Points, Lines, and the Structure of R -- Chapter 6. Set Theory -- Part II: Relations, Structures, Geometry -- Chapter 7. Relations -- Chapter 8. Definable Elements and Constants -- Chapter 9. Minimal and Order-Minimal Structures -- Chapter 10. Geometry of Definable Sets -- Chapter 11. Where Do Structures Come From? -- Chapter 12. Elementary Extensions and Symmetries -- Chapter 13. Tame vs. Wild -- Chapter 14. First-Order Properties -- Chapter 15. Symmetries and Logical Visibility One More Time -- Part III: Inference, Models, Categoricity and Diversity -- Chapter 16. Logical Inference -- Chapter 17. Categoricity -- Chapter 18. Counting Countable Models -- Chapter 19. Infinitary Logics -- Chapter 20. Symmetry and Definability -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Abstract: This textbook is a second edition of the successful, Mathematical Logic: On Numbers, Sets, Structures, and Symmetry. It retains the original two parts found in the first edition, while presenting new material in the form of an added third part to the textbook. The textbook offers a slow introduction to mathematical logic, and several basic concepts of model theory, such as first-order definability, types, symmetries, and elementary extensions. Part I, Logic Sets, and Numbers, shows how mathematical logic is used to develop the number structures of classical mathematics. All necessary concepts are introduced exactly as they would be in a course in mathematical logic; but are accompanied by more extensive introductory remarks and examples to motivate formal developments. The second part, Relations, Structures, Geometry, introduces several basic concepts of model theory, such as first-order definability, types, symmetries, and elementary extensions, and shows how they are used to study and classify mathematical structures. The added Part III to the book is closer to what one finds in standard introductory mathematical textbooks. Definitions, theorems, and proofs that are introduced are still preceded by remarks that motivate the material, but the exposition is more formal, and includes more advanced topics. The focus is on the notion of countable categoricity, which analyzed in detail using examples from the first two parts of the book. This textbook is suitable for graduate students in mathematical logic and set theory and will also be of interest to mathematicians who know the technical aspects of the subject, but are not familiar with its history and philosophical background. .
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    ISBN: 9783031546181
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 305 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Law ; Law ; International law.
    Abstract: Introductory Remarks -- PART I: On Equality -- Equality Paradigms and Non-Discrimination: Theoretical Approximations -- Equality Principles and Institutionalism: Judicial Spill-Overs and Dialogues -- PART II: Redefining Recognition -- Equality Paradigms and Contemporary Politics of Recognition -- Principles of Recognition – or How to Move Forward? -- PART III: Towards Collectivisation -- Exploring Counterbalancing Paradigms: Positive Discrimination and Collectivisation -- Collective Subject-Holdership, Processes and Scales of Collectivisation -- Concluding Thoughts.
    Abstract: This book develops a critique of the equality paradigms and principles to be found in the majority of today’s legal orders. It accompanies the reader taking her/him/x from a critique of non-discrimination and equality to the ‘opposite’ end of the spectrum, that is, to collective rights, collectivization processes and a manifestation of recognition that is based on difference. This interdisciplinary, theoretical journey explores a multiplicity of (legal) orders in terms of how they provide spaces of articulation for ‘difference’. The book draws, emblematically, on the rights of indigenous peoples as well as recognized and unrecognized cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities. The book thereby builds on legal and political theory, which ultimately proves essential given the dedicated objective of the book, that is, to introduce a variety of recognition principles and what the author terms ‘scales of collectivization’, which facilitate a better understanding of collective rights and further ways to capture, define and ultimately measure these rights.
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    ISBN: 9783031498992
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 257 p. 13 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Microeconomics. ; Economic history. ; Industrial organization. ; Music theory. ; music industry ; music piracy ; streaming service ; industrial organization ; microeconomic theory ; modelling ; experiential good ; experiential service ; production of music ; consumption of music ; concert attendance ; COVID lockdown
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Consuming Music -- 3. Basic Producer Theory -- 4. The Music Industry Disrupted: The COVID Era -- 5. The Global Marketplace for Music -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book uses economic theory to explain how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating and accessing music prove to be a double-edged sword for creators and producers. This second edition includes new information about concert attendance and live performance in the COVID era and what followed, as well as the resultant economic impacts on the industry. Throughout the book, Byun questions how the business of music affects creativity and the extent to which this impacts the creative output of the individual artist. Chapters also address copyright enforcement and online piracy. This is an approachable resource for economists interested in the music industry as well as business and music majors studying the ways in which technology can impact a creative process. Christie Byun is Associate Professor of Economics at Wabash College in the USA. She teaches courses on statistics, econometrics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, and the fashion industry. Byun has done extensive research on the changes in the music industry using applied economic theory.
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    ISBN: 9783031591679
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 565 p. 301 illus., 279 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 978
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT2023, the Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, during November 22nd-24th, 2023. ROBOT2023 is part of a series of conferences that are jointly organized by Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica (SPR) / Portuguese Society for Robotics and by Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica (SEIDROB) / Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics. These conferences, now occurring with a yearly periodicity, provide a forum to roboticists mostly from Iberia, but also from other parts of the world, to present and discuss their research results, new developments, and applications in the field of Robotics. The volume 1 of this book contains 45 papers addressing fundamental aspects of mobile robotics and robot manipulation while volume 2 contains 45 papers covering the application of robotics in different domains and environments.
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    ISBN: 9783031555589
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 133 p. 33 illus., 25 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: Systematic Review of Road Traffic Regulation Compliance -- Bibliometrics Analysis on Research Related to Social Media Addiction During the Pandemic Covid-19 -- Integrating a Grounded Theory and a Case Study Concept in Green Logistics -- Automotive Industry Perspectives of Green Skills in the Skill Dimension Towards Sustainability -- Performance of a New Hybrid Conjugate Gradient Method -- Intervention of Modern Ergonomic Design in Ergonomics Risk Assessment Study Among Dentists -- A Review of the Literature on Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) in Manufacturing -- Simulating Covid-19 Disease Spread Using Gama Platform to Determine How Disease Prevention Influences the Infection Rate of the Disease -- Revolutionising the Tourism Industry: The Role of Innovative Technologies in Enhancing Tourist Experiences -- Revolutionizing Supply Chain Processes: Harnessing the Power of IoT and Blockchain Technology to Enhance Opportunities -- Development of a Smart Garbage Monitoring System -- An ExploratoryFactors Analysis Study on Current Value-Added Activities for Customer at Hypermarket During Covid-19" -- A Framework of Material Management for A Construction Project in Tanah Merah -- Development of a Paperless Prototype System for Medical Inventory Management: A Case Study in a Malaysian Hospital -- Development of a Student Loyalty Model for TVET Higher Learning Institution (HLI) with Integration of Service Quality, Corporate Image and Satisfaction Using the PLS-SEM Approach.
    Abstract: The book showcases how the technologies are transforming entertainment, education, and professional training, offering readers real-world examples of their applications. "Innovative Technologies for Enhancing Experiences and Engagement" is an enlightening guide that reveals how emerging technologies are shaping our world, offering insights into the evolving digital landscape and inspiring a future of more personalized, immersive, and engaging experiences.
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    ISBN: 9783031532740
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 226 p. 113 illus., 91 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1125
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Software engineering. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: A Deep Learning-Based Study for Cyclone Track Forecasting: Comparative Analysis Using Historical Data from the Bay of Bengal -- Employee Management Support Application for Operation Managers and Its Security -- Text-based Data Analysis for Mental Health Using Explainable AI and Deep Learning -- Using the Internet of Things and Machine Learning to Monitor and Detect COVID-19 -- Comparison between the Route Using Improved Detours and Shortest Route on Distributed Key Value Store Based on Order Preserving Linear Hashing and Skip Graph -- Extraction Study of Leaf Area and Plant Height of Radish Seedlings Based on SAM -- A Scalable Middleware for IoT Vulnerability Detection -- Predicting Oil Spills in Real-Time: A Machine Learning and AIS Data-Driven Approach -- Data-driven OCL Invariant Patterns-based Process Model Exploration for Process Mining -- An Analysis of Program Comprehension Process by Eye Movement Mapping to Syntax Trees -- Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation and Ego-motion Made Better: A Masking Constraints -- Using Additional Sets of Random Data to Assess Possible Dissaving Risk against Life Expectancy for Elderly People -- A Study on the NFT and Blockchain Technology for Copyright Management -- The Effect of Enterprise Risk Management System on Risk Management Capability and Management Performance -- A Study on the Effect of Omnichannel Customers Acceptance Attitudes and Loyalty: Focusing on UTAUT2.
    Abstract: The book reports state-of-the-art results in Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing in both printed and electronic form. This book presents original papers on both theory and practice that address foundations, state-of-the-art problems and solutions, and crucial challenges.
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    ISBN: 9783031567797
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 224 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Part I. General Introduction -- Chapter 1. Research questions, aims and expected results -- 1.1. A philosophical problem: research questions and aims -- 1.2. Book structure and expected results -- Chapter 2. Methodological remarks -- 2.1. A methodology between reconstruction and interpretation -- 2.1.1. A focus on Adam Smith’s style -- 2.2. Adam Smith’s articulation of the concept of ‘human being’ -- 2.3. Thematic contexts of Smith's elaboration of the concept of the human being -- 2.4. A moral glossary on Smith’s conception of human beings: merit, virtue and propriety -- Chapter 3. Adam Smith’s historical and biographical context -- 3.1. A sketch of Adam Smith’s historical framework -- 3.2. Biographical outline of Adam Smith -- Part II. Adam Smith On Nature And Human Nature -- Chapter 4. A semantic overview of ‘nature’ and ‘natural’ in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 1.1. Nature, human nature and morality -- 1.2. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. A synthesis of Adam Smith’s conception of human nature -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Sources and theoretical contexts of Adam Smith’s moral conception of human nature -- 2.3. Sociability, the role of language and the human propensity to exchange -- 2.4. Human nature, harmony and society -- 2.5. Human nature and morality: Adam Smith’s conception of self-love -- 2.6. Harmony between oneself and the others in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy: the desire to better one’s condition and the desire to gain deserved approval -- 2.6.1. Some reflections on the role of happiness in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Part III. The Origin And Development Of The Self In Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: History And Natural Self Correction -- Chapter 6. Philosophy of history, morality and human beings -- 1.1. Adam Smith’s philosophy of history: conjectural history and four-stage theory -- 1.1.1. History and human nature -- 1.2. Historical context and the self: Adam Smith’s conception of the savage -- 1.3. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Natural self correction and human beings -- 2.1. Natural self correction and morality: infancy, sympathy and self-development -- 2.2. A focus on the psychological origin of the self -- 2.3. Conclusion -- Part IV. Adam Smith’s Model Of The Mind: Sympathy, Imagination, The Impartial Spectator And Immediacy -- Chapter 8. Perfect and imperfect sympathy in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Passions in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 1.2.1. The immediate dimension of passions -- 1.3. Natural and moral imagination -- 1.4. Perfect and imperfect sympathy -- 1.5. The terminological shades of sympathy -- 1.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Immediacy as philosophical problem in Adam Smith’s moral theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Imagination, human nature and perception -- 2.2.1. Imagination, harmony and aesthetics -- 2.3. Pleasure and pain in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy -- 2.4. Harmony, imagination and the impartial spectator -- 2.5. Prudence, the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.6. The origin and expression of moraljudgment: the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book investigates the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question: what makes us human beings from a moral standpoint? To do this, Riccardo Bonfiglioli explores the relationship between the concepts of ‘human nature’, ‘mind’ and ‘the self’ in order to reconstruct Smith’s theory of subjectivity. After providing a systematic reconstruction of Adam Smith’s conceptions of ‘human nature’ , ‘mind’ and ‘the self’ – exploring some aspects of Smith’s philosophy (nature, philosophy of history, sympathy and imagination) and their empirical expressions (education, conduct and character) – Bonfiglioli argues that, in Adam Smith’s work, the meaning of ‘moral human beings’ would depend on the human being’s effort to live in harmony with oneself and the others. According to Bonfiglioli, in Smith’s moral theory, this ‘harmony with oneself and the others’ would be achieved in relation to a certain kind of awareness that can be possible when human beings try to judge the conduct and try to act according to the impartial spectator. Specifically, this impartial spectator is reinterpreted by the author in the light of the concept of immediacy. Riccardo Bonfiglioli is academic tutor and subject expert at the University of Bologna. He is associate member of the Walras-Pareto Centre (University of Lausanne), dynamic psychology researcher and MBSR instructor (Aim Milan).
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    ISBN: 9783031498343
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 231 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; European literature.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 2: ‘Straight through those clear blue eyes into his soul’: dreams of transparency in mary elizabeth braddon’s the trail of the serpent (1860) -- 3: ‘The curse that has always followed us’: (dis)inheriting the past in joseph sheridan le fanu’s wylder’s hand (1864) -- 4: ‘Short-spanned living creatures’: evolutionary perspectives and the fate of progress in rhoda broughton’s not wisely, but too well (1867) -- 5: ‘Can I say I believe in it too?’: hesitation and the difficulties of decision in wilkie collins’s armadale (1866) -- 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts modernity in the form of intellectual and moral discontinuity. Through closely historicist readings of novels by Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton, this book traces how discontinuity is manifested in the suspenseful plotting of these fictions, through which readers are challenged to revise conventional assumptions about the world and adopt more contingent perspectives. The study demonstrates that reading for this sense of modernity does not merely uncover the genre's engagements with various mid-century contexts. More fundamentally, it broaches a new sense of the function and significance of sensation fiction: the acclimatization of its readers to the discontinuities of modern existence.
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    ISBN: 9783031531347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 211 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Comparisons in World Literature
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    Keywords: Literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Fiction.
    Abstract: Chapter 1- From Malandros to Agregados:the Precarious Labourer and the Novel Form in 19th Century Brazil -- Chapter 2-Sex Work in Caribbean Fiction -- Chapter 3 Economic Informality in South African Fiction -- Chapter 4 -(In) formal structure in Wizard of the Crow -- Chapter 5-Precarious Core.
    Abstract: This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Almeida, Machado de Assis, Dany Laferrière, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, and Masande Ntshanga. It sees the representation of informal economies as a structural homology of world-literature. In chapters on the figure of the agregado in the nineteenth-century Brazilian novel; sex work in Haitian fiction; the politics of the informal economy in the post-apartheid South African novel; and Ngugi’s representation African occult economies, Josh Jewell explores the relationship between the rise of improvised economic activity—and its consolidation under neoliberalism in postcolonial nations—and literary form. He shows how informal economies can be grasped as locations of strategy and improvisation whose subjects must shift constantly between officialdom and underground networks; between the realms of the licit and illicit. This produces highly heterogenous narratives oscillating between different tones and registers (unserious and tragic), social spaces (working-class and elite), and conceptions of reality. By comparing the various situated aesthetics of informality, this book instrumentalises the Warwick Research Collective’s compelling but nebulous idea of a world-literature that “variously registers” a “singular modernity”. Josh Jewell is a resident scholar in the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research analyses the relationship between labour and literary form in world-literature. His current postdoctoral research project focuses on representations of labour which falls outside of direct market mediation--such as domestic labour and peasant agriculture--in South Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the European periphery.
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    ISBN: 9783031483554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 254 p. 20 illus., 19 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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    Keywords: Ecocriticism. ; Literature. ; Literature ; Feminism and literature. ; Space. ; Culture.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: Cultural Palimpsests of Place -- 2 Sacred Rivers and Groves of India -- 3 Southern Africa: Conflicting Claims on the Land -- 4 Ireland’s Languages of Landscape -- 5 Australia: A Continent Apart -- 6 New York: Harboring World Cultures and Commerce -- 7 Arts of Persuasion.
    Abstract: Taking Place: Environment and Place in Literature and Art explores how works of literature and art help us to rethink the ways that we have perceived, imagined, inhabited, explored, conquered, and shared places. The book offers chapters on India, Southern Africa, Ireland, Australia, and New York City. The literary and artistic works investigated range in time from early indigenous rock art to contemporary literary representations of place. Bonnie Kime Scott participates in ongoing interdisciplinary discussions of ecocritical, feminist, postcolonial, post-humanist and place studies. Bonnie Kime Scott is the author or editor of numerous works concerning modernism, gender and eco-literary studies, including The Gender of Modernism and Virginia Woolf and Modernist Uses of Nature. She taught English Literature and Women’s Studies classes at The University of Delaware and San Diego State University. .
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    ISBN: 9783031508325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 293 p. 9 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
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    Keywords: Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.). ; Television broadcasting.
    Abstract: Paul Sheehan and Blythe Worthy, “Introduction” -- Part 1: Making Comedy Central -- Paul Giles, “The Aesthetics of Television: Genre, Auteur, Canon” -- Paul Sheehan, “Difficult Laughter: Modernist Aesthetics in Better Things and Atlanta” -- Part 2: Criminals, Outlaws, Auteurs -- Shannon Wells-Lassagne, “Entente Cordiale: Sherlock (BBC) and Lupin (Netflix), a Tale of Two Fandoms” -- Thomas Britt, “What Is Television? Two Auteur Series in Literary Contexts” -- Ryan Twomey, “Remixing the Law: Timely and Untimely Politics in Lindelof’s Watchmen ” -- Part 3: Adaptive Disruption: Young Adult and Children’s Television -- Debra Dudek, “Ambiguous Endings and Disrupted Paratexts in The End of the F***ing World and I Am Not Okay With This” -- Sabina Rahman, “From Medieval Legend to Modern Superheroics: Arrow as a 21st-Century Robin Hood” -- Katrine Kwong, “(Re)animating Shakespeare: Screen Theatre, on Television and Online” Pamela Demory, “Queering Emily Dickinson for the Millennial Age” -- Part 4: Transnational Dramas, Transcultural Contexts Blythe Worthy, “The Suburban Serial: tracing textual and community limits in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake” -- Susan Lever, “Witnessing: Indigenous Life Experience on Television” -- Meenakshi Bharat, “The Dialectic of Transnational Adaptation: The Problematic Web Adaptation of A Suitable Boy” Trisha Dunleavy, “Complex Teenage Passion: Normal People and the Affordances of Cultural Specificity” -- Afterword: Christine Geraghty.
    Abstract: Adapting Television and Literature is an incisive collection of essays that explores the growing sub-category of television adaptations of literature and poetics. Each chapter questions inflexible notions of film / literature and adaptation / intertext, focusing judiciously on emergent or overlooked media and literary forms. These lines of enquiry embrace texts both within and beyond ‘adaptation proper’, to reveal the complex relationships between literary works, television adaptations, and related dialogues of textual interconnectivity. Adapting Television and Literature proposes, in particular, a ‘re-seeing’ of four genres pivotal to television and its history: caustic comedy, which claims for itself more freedoms than other forms of scripted television; auteurist outlaw drama, an offbeat, niche genre that aligns a fixation on lawbreakers with issues of creative control; young adult reinventions that vitalise this popular, yet under-examined area of television studies; and transcultural exchanges, which highlight adaptations beyond the white, Anglo-American programming that dominates ‘peak TV’. Through these genres, Adapting Television and Literature examines the creative resources of adaptation, plotting future paths for enquiries into television, literature and transmedial storytelling. Paul Sheehan is an Associate Professor of Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of two monographs, Modernism, Narrative, and Humanism (2002) and Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence (2013), both with Cambridge UP. His work on film / television and literary studies includes book chapters on The Matrix Trilogy, HBO’s Deadwood, and Michael Haneke; as well as journal articles on Werner Herzog and HBO’s True Detective. He is currently working on a project about Black modernism and blues culture. Blythe Worthy is a sessional academic in the film studies and English disciplines at The University of Sydney. Blythe has had their research on television and film published by the University of California Press, Edinburgh University Press, Springer, and Rowman and Littlefield. Blythe is Managing Editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies and has worked in research for SBS and ABC television.
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    ISBN: 9783031557958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 102 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Administrative law. ; Law ; Law ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law.
    Abstract: 1. The "idea" of administrative law -- 2.The theoretical and legal-institutional context -- 3. The "options" of administrative law -- 4.The "return" of "authoritative" administrative law -- The role of "concerted administrative law" -- 6. State responsibility,- 7. The control of administrative activity. 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: The book provides a discursive reflection on the current challenges facing administrative law, based on a key idea: the defence of the liberal model of society. The author describes the content of her book as a turning point on the traditional standards of the rule of law and the way it impacts on the administrative state and administrative law. Considering the current use (and abuse) of emergency law by governments – based on economic crisis, environmental crisis, pandemic, and the economic situation caused by the Ukraine war – she devises a different balance or equilibrium on the usual separation of powers. Many reasons contribute to this turning point: i) the weaknesses of an open society easily swayed by social networks; ii) social “tribalism” replaces common good and general interest; iii) social tribalism leads to illiberal society, which causes illiberal democracies; iv) illiberal democracies lead to ungovernability which reinforces the role of the government, the emergency law, and some de facto measures. The author looks at many recent decisions from the ECJ and the ECHR and some constitutional and administrative courts, which extends the interest of this work to a wide range of professionals, from scholars to students, from judges to lawyers, filling the gap from an administrative law perspective of the current issues.
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    ISBN: 9783031445088
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 353 p. 72 illus., 55 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Control engineering. ; Telecommunication. ; Automation.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Objectives of a control system -- Multiple Input Multiple Output Systems -- Observability -- Controllability -- More on Controllability and Observability -- Stability of Multivariable Systems -- Closed Loop Systems -- State Feedback -- Optimal Control -- Robust Control -- Linear Matrix Inequalities in Control -- Some Useful Mathematical Basics -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This textbook presents an in-depth introductory survey of several fundamental advanced control concepts and techniques all ranging from modern ideas. The book emphasizes ideas, an understanding of key concepts, methodologies, and results. In line with this, the book addresses master’s students in the overlap of engineering and computer science as well as engineers working in various application fields and interested in useful control techniques and less in system theories appealing from a mathematical point of view. The book aims to show what methods and results learned for single-variable systems are also applicable to multivariable systems, what is different and why. The structured text covers a broad spectrum of topics from decentralized control to the use of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Methods and results are illustrated by many examples and using free, open source mathematical software, predominately GNU Octave. In some cases, the free mathematical software package Scilab is also used. The book features exercises and examples throughout. Presents an introductory survey of fundamental advanced control concepts and techniques ranging from classical to more modern ones; Describes which techniques in single-variable control can be adopted in multivariable control and addresses modern control techniques such as LMIs; Features exercises, examples, and GNU Octave script listings; Provides relevant freely available lecture notes collected from the Internet and an appendix with references for further reading.
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    ISBN: 9783031555640
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 571 p. 29 illus., 27 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 523
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Dynamics. ; Nonlinear theories. ; Engineering mathematics.
    Abstract: Introduction -- The Hypergeometric, Supertrigonometric, And Superhyperbolic Functions.-The Wright, Supertrigonometric And Superhyperbolic Functions -- The Mittag-Leffler, Supertrigonometric, And Superhyperbolic Functions -- The Wiman, Supertrigonometric, And Superhyperbolic Functions -- The Prabhakar, Supertrigonometric, And Superhyperbolic Functions -- The Sonine, Supertrigonometric And Superhyperbolic Functions -- Other Special Functions, Supertrigonometric And Superhyperbolic Functions -- Preliminaries -- Multi Stability Of The Jensen Type Random Operator Equations In C*-Algebras -- Super Multi Stability Of Additive Functional Inequalities In Banach Algebras -- Multi Stability Of Tri-Additive Functional Inequalities In Unital C*-Algebras -- Multi Stability Of Fractional-Order Systems I -- Multi Stability Of Fractional-Order System II -- Fuzzy Topological Spaces -- Multi Stability Of Pseudo Stochastic Tri{Additive Fuzzy Operator Inequalities In MVFC-\Diamond-Algebras -- Multi Stability Of Additive-Additive Fuzzy Functional Inequalities In MVFC-\Diamond-Ternary Algebras -- Multi Stability Of Pseudo Stochastic Additive Fuzzy Operator Inequalities In MVFB-Algebras -- Multi Stability Of Fractional-Order Volterra Equations In MVFB-Spaces -- Multi Stability Of Fractional-Order System I In MVFB-Spaces -- Multi Stability Of Fractional-Order System II In MVFB-Spaces -- The Matrix Mittag-Leffler Function And Nonlinear Fractional Integro-Differential Equations.
    Abstract: The main target of this book is to present a new concept of Ulam-type stability, i.e., multi-stability, through the classical, well-known special functions and to obtain the best approximation error estimates by a different concept of perturbation stability including fuzzy approaches for uncertainty considerations. This stability allows us to obtain diverse approximations depending on various special functions that are initially chosen and to evaluate maximal stability and minimal error which enable us to obtain a unique optimal solution of functional equations, inequalities, and fractional equations. Stability analysis in the sense of the Ulam and its different kinds has received considerable attention from the researchers. However, how to effectively generalize the Ulam stability problems and to evaluate optimized controllability and stability are new issues. The multi-stability not only covers the previous concepts but also considers the optimization of the problem and provides a comprehensive discussion of optimizing the different types of the Ulam stabilities of mathematical models used in the natural sciences and engineering disciplines with fuzzy attitudes. Besides, this book also deals with nonlinear differential equations with various boundary conditions or initial value problems, based on the matrix Mittag-Leffler function, fixed point theory, as well as Babenko's approach to study uniqueness and existence of solutions. In general, the benefits for the readers can be concluded as follows: 1. Evaluates maximal stability with minimal error to get a unique optimal solution. 2. Discusses an optimal method of the alternative to study existence, uniqueness, and different types of Ulam stabilities under special consideration of the fuzzy approaches. 3. Delves into the new study of boundary value problems of fractional integro-differential equations with integral boundary conditions and variable coefficients.
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    ISBN: 9783031577086
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 65 p. 19 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence 1154
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    Keywords: Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Finance. ; Branding (Marketing).
    Abstract: -- 1. Estimating and Evaluation of International Capital Movements in The Perspective of Corporate Economic Geography. -- 2. Wave Net-TSRS Model for Timeseries Prediction in Finance. -- 3. Integrating Decision Analytics and Advanced Modeling in Financial and Economic Systems through Artificial Intelligence. -- 4. Co-movements between Bitcoin and Gold: Multivariate BEKK-GARCH Models. -- 5. An Approach for backtesting and algorithmic trading with liquidity and Hill Climbing algorithm. -- 6. Unleashing Economic Potential: Exploring the Synergy of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Automation.
    Abstract: The book is divided into sections according to the content of the chapters. The first section covers AI concepts with NP and financial issues. The second section covers AI techniques in relation to Fintech issues. The remaining sections are implementation and analysis. As science and technology development and algorithms are widely used in various fields, their influence and development have increased efficiency and productivity. The introduction of algorithms in the financial field has not been an exception to this. In recent years, the growth and development of the financial system have been in sync with the growth of technology. Fintechs were born at the intersection of these two sectors. What happens through the application of computer knowledge in the financial field, or the examination of the efficiency and effectiveness of their use and the interaction and combination of these two fields has been written very infrequently in the majority of books. In Fintech, there are problems that researchers focus on such as customer support, portfolio management, trading algorithms, fraud detection, credit risk assessment, insurance, and wealth management. The mentioned problems are complex and are mapped to NP problems in the field of artificial intelligence. In the last two decades, optimization algorithms, neural networks, and deep learning have been widely applied in many scientific and engineering fields to solve the mentioned problems. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with the most used artificial intelligence methods for scientific and engineering problems. This book is used by students, scientists, and practitioners in various fields. The chapters are self-explanatory, and the reader can read each one separately. They describe the algorithm used, the chosen problem, and the implementation. In addition, practical examples, comparisons, and experimental results are presented.
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    ISBN: 9783031546143
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 152 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism 4
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Law ; Law ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Religion and law.
    Abstract: Introduction and Background -- Theoretically Contextualising the Project -- Contextualising Legal Pluralism -- South Africa’s History of Colonialism and Apartheid -- Locating Islam in South Africa: History of Mosques and Muslim Organisations -- Compromising Legislation – Upholding the Patriarchy -- Social Context of Women’s Experiences -- The Collusion of the Patriarchs -- Muslim Personal Law and the State: Legal Pluralism and Its Discontents.
    Abstract: This book presents an in-depth exploration of the intricate negotiations of married Muslim women within Cape Town’s Muslim communities, navigating the complexities of legal pluralism governed by Muslim Personal Law (MPL). Spanning historical epochs from colonialism to the democratic era, it argues that MPL’s informal status perpetuates patriarchal norms, especially in the domain of marriage. It critically examines the consequences of the non-recognition of Muslim marriages within the civil legal framework and underscores the ambiguous intersections of MPL with broader legal systems, which leaves women in a precarious legal state overshadowed by religious doctrines. Adopting a gender perspective and an interdisciplinary approach that combines political science, sociology, and the law, the book reveals the historical roots of legal pluralism, while also shedding light on the political strategies that have perpetuated gender-stratified citizenship. Despite all the democratic promises, legal pluralism persists, contributing to gender disparities, and the book critically examines the government’s reluctance to address the marginalisation of Muslim women, especially through the lens of the proposed Muslim Marriages Bill (MMB). This book is essential reading for scholars in the fields of law, sociology, and gender studies, offering critical insights into the intersections of legal systems, religion, and gender dynamics within Muslim communities in Cape Town.
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    ISBN: 9783031597077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 320 p. 141 illus., 96 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 211
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Biomedical engineering. ; Medical informatics. ; Computational intelligence.
    Abstract: This book presents the papers included in the proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2023 (IRICT 2023) that was held in Pulai Springs Resorts, Johor, Malaysia on 27-28, December 2023. IRICT 2023 is organized by the Yemeni Scientists Research Group (YSRG) and Big Data Center in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia) in collaboration with Association for Information Systems – Malaysia Chapter (MyAIS) and College of Engineering, IT and Environment at Charles Darwin University (Australia). IRICT2023 is a forum for the presentation of technological advances in the field of Information and Communication Technology. The main theme of the conference is “Advances in Intelligent Computing Techniques and Applications”. The book discusses several research topics such as Health Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Intelligent Communication Systems, Cyber Security, and Information System. These papers were presented in three parallel sessions during the two days.
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    ISBN: 9783031399206
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 253 p. 9 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Reasoning. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology. ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Chapter 1. What Kind of Approach This Study Takes and What It Does Not -- Part I How a “Most-Explanatory Theory” of Rationality May Aid Understanding and Debates -- Chapter 2. Positioning the Argument: Goals, Terminologies, Assumptions, Directions -- Chapter 3. Tidying the Rational* Home -- Chapter 4. The Ontology of Rationality -- Chapter 5. Further Considerations of the Most Explanatory Theory of Rationality*: Does It Do Justice to Rationality and Humanity? -- Part II Aspects of a Most Explanatory Theory of Rationality -- Chapter 6. Rationality’s Precepts and Cognates (Irrational, Nonrational, Arational, etc.) -- Chapter 7. [Rationality vs. Authority] Versus [Rationality + Authority] -- Chapter 8. Why Rationality? The Growth and Normativity of Rationality -- Chapter 9. Rationality Personal and Social -- Chapter 10. Extensive Example and Closing Remarks.
    Abstract: Rationality has been philosophers’ concern stretching back to ancient times. But just what is rationality? In trying to answer this question, rationality is found to be more complex than supposed. This book investigates this supposition and thereby aspires to bring together the facets of the peculiar phenomenon that is rationality. Rationality is shown to be both more complex than presumed and yet more accessible than many may have feared. One argument concedes the common assumption that those interested in rationality need only rely on intuitions about this phenomenon. Yet, even moderate research reveals the concept’s profound fuzziness. This book aims to set forth a theory, explanation, and unification of the kindred and disparate understandings of this elusive concept, rationality. Lantz Fleming Miller, a visiting professor of philosophy at Ashoka University in India, focuses on moral, social, and political philosophy, especially pertaining to technological developments. He has published dozens of articles on these subjects in prominent journals. He has also taught philosophy at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and institutes in Paris and New York.
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    ISBN: 9783031565212
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 201 p. 101 illus., 90 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems 37
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Computational intelligence. ; Engineering mathematics.
    Abstract: This book collects selected papers from the 2023 International Conference on Haptics and Virtual Reality (ICHVR 2023), held during December 15–17, 2023. ICHVR 2023 is organized by Southeast University (SEU), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and co-organized by the International Association of Electrical, Electronic and Energy Engineering (IAEEEE). This book gathers together latest findings and insightful ideas from innovative academics and experts in the field of Haptics, Virtual Reality, Human–Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Computer Arts, Mobile Intelligent Device and Artificial Intelligent Algorithm. This book serves as a valuable resource for staying up-to-date with the state of the art in Haptics and Virtual Reality and serves as a catalyst for further advancements and innovation in these fields, which will provide unique perspectives for readers consisting of professionals, scientists, practitioners, researchers, and graduate students.
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