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Walter de Gruyter Philanthropie in Saudi-Arabien: Bestandsaufnahme
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Walter de Gruyter Stumme Praktiken
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De Gruyter Towards A Voice in The Public Sphere?:
Book SynopsisDie Reihe MAECENATA SCHRIFTEN ist eine interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Buchreihe zur Zivilgesellschaftsforschung. Von 2007–2015 erschien sie im Verlag Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart; seit 2016 erscheint sie im Verlag De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin. Sie wird von Rupert Graf Strachwitz, Eckhard Priller und Siri Hummel herausgegeben. Für eine Aufnahme in die Reihe kommen Monographien und Sammelbände in Betracht, die einen thematischen Bezug zu den Themenfeldern Zivilgesellschaft, Bürgerschaftliches Engagement, Philanthropie und Stiftungswesen aufweisen. In die Reihe können Qualifikationsarbeiten ebenso aufgenommen werden wie Studien, Ergebnisse von Forschungsprojekten, Tagungsbände oder Gutachten. Die Reihe steht grundsätzlich jeder Autorin und jedem Autor offen; ein unmittelbarer Arbeitsbezug zum Maecenata Institut für Philanthropie und Zivilgesellschaft ist nicht erforderlich. Veröffentlichungen sind in deutscher und englischer Sprache möglich. In der Regel ist für eine Veröffentlichung ein Druckkostenzuschuss erforderlich. Zuschussgeber können auf dem Umschlag mit Namen, auf der Innenseite auch mit Logo genannt werden. Texte zur Veröffentlichung können jederzeit eingereicht werden. Sie werden in der Regel durch die Herausgeber begutachtet, diese behalten sich die Einholung externer Gutachten vor. Diese kann auch auf Wunsch der Autorinnen und Autoren erfolgen. Bei Qualifikationsarbeiten sind auch die entsprechenden Gutachten für die Entscheidung über die Aufnahme maßgeblich. Zielgruppe Die Reihe richtet sich vornehmlich an die wissenschaftliche Fachwelt und an Publizisten, Praktiker und Entscheidungsträger. Manuskripteinreichungen Informationen zur Einreichung von Proposals erhalten Sie direkt beim Maecenata Institut für Philanthropie und Zivilgesellschaft, Berlin, Tel.: +49 30 2838 7909, E-Mail: mi@maecenata.eu, Website: www.maecenata.eu Die Herausgeber Dr. phil. Rupert Graf Strachwitz studierte Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte in den USA und in München, ist seit über 30 Jahren ehren- und hauptamtlich, beratend, forschend und lehrend mit Zivilgesellschaft, bürgerschaftlichem Engagement, Philanthropie und Stiftungswesen befasst. Er war Mitglied der Enquete-Kommission „Zukunft des bürgerschaftlichen Engagements" des Deutschen Bundestags. Er ist Direktor des Maecenata-Instituts für Philanthropie und Zivilgesellschaft, Berlin. Dr. sc. Eckhard Priller studierte Soziologie und Ökonomie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und war seit 1992 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). Von 2008 bis 2014 leitete er dort die Projektgruppe Zivilengagement, die u.a. 2009 den „Bericht zur Lage und zu den Perspektiven des bürgerschaftlichen Engagements in Deutschland" erstellt hat. Eckhard Priller ist wissenschaftlicher Co-Direktor des Maecenata Instituts für Philanthropie und Zivilgesellschaft. Dr. Siri Hummel ist stv. Direktorin des Maecenata Instituts für Philanthropie und Zivilgesellschaft und ist Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft, sowie Gleichstellung in der Zivilgesellschaft und Stiftungsforschung. Zusätzlich ist sie Lehrbeauftragte im Studiengang Nonprofit Management and Public Governance an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht. Vor ihrer Arbeit bei Maecenata war Siri von 2011-2017 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. 2018 promovierte sie an der Universität Greifswald zum Thema Demokratieförderung durch Stiftungen.
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Walter de Gruyter Übergabegespräche
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Walter de Gruyter Geschlechterunterschiede und
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Walter de Gruyter Moderne Theorien der Soziologie
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Landschaften beobachten, nutzen und schützen:
Book SynopsisDie Monografie vereint vierzehn Beiträge, die vier unterschiedlichen Blöcken zugeordnet sind: 1. Beobachtungen und Analysen in Beispiellandschaften, 2. Landnutzungen und ihre Auswirkungen, 3. Landschaften als Lebensraum - Biologische Vielfalt in der Landschaft und 4. Aktuelle Entwicklungen und zukünftige Herausforderungen. Dieses thematische Spektrum lässt die Komplexität und den Facettenreichtum erkennen. Der besondere Wert der Erkenntnisse liegt in dem langfristigen, verschiedene Sachbereiche überspannenden, landschaftsbezogenen Beobachtungsansatz, der Berücksichtigung der naturräumlichen Bedingtheit vieler ökologischer Prozesse und der modellorientierten Vorgehensweise bei der Analyse und der Bewertung der Landschaftsprozesse.Table of ContentsModellgeschützte landschaftsökologische Forschung - Genese und Nutzungsgeschichte der Agrarlandschaft Chorin - Exkurs zur Nutzungsgeschichte der Agrarlandschaft Chorin - Lokale Landschaftsaneignung durch Einwohner Klein Ziethens - Raumbezogene Datenanalyse am Beispiel von Nährstoff- und Bodeninformationen in der Agrarlandschaft Chorin - Wandel der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung - Standort und Vegetationsentwicklung auf landwirtschaftlich genutzten Grünlandflächen des Ziethener Seebruchs und konzeptionelle Betrachtung zur Wiedervernässung - Die Moore der Agrarlandschaft Chorin - Modellgeschützte Analyse ausgewählter Größen des Landschaftshaushaltes am Beispiel der Agrarflächen der Ziethener Moränenlandschaft - Aspekte der biotischen Integrität von Agrarlandschaften - Ackerhohlformen und Flurgehölze als charakteristische Ausstattungselemente von Jungmoränenlandschaften - Auftreten und Häufigkeit von Brutvogelarten - Die natürlichen Potenziale von Vegetation und Standort
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Klaus Schwarz Elitenzirkulation in
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Klaus Schwarz Zwischen Handwerkstradition Und Globalem Markt:
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De Gruyter Allah's Kolkhozes: Migration, De-Stalinisation,
Book SynopsisDie Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.
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De Gruyter The Family in Central Asia: New Perspectives
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De Gruyter Die Türkei Im Spannungsfeld Extremer Ideologien
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De Gruyter The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and
Book SynopsisThe series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide range of topics from the history, culture and societies of the Middle East and North Africa as well as neighboring regions in central, south and southeast Asia.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Public Policy: A Comprehensive Introduction
Book SynopsisThis book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potůček draws on his vast and diverse experience to offer descriptions of public policy’s normative and conceptual foundations, stages, actors, and institutions, as well as fifteen of the most frequently used public policy theories. Featuring illustrative empirical case studies, this innovative guide shows how these theories can be applied to making public policy. With particular insight into the importance of cultural context and historical legacies for policy making in post-Communist Europe, Public Policy provides nuanced, expert insight into the difficulties of public policy discourse and reform.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Queer Encounters with Communist Power:
Book SynopsisIn the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness--and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their dealings with the regime? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves a groundbreaking queer oral history project with meticulous, original research into the discourse on homosexuality and transsexuality in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989. Contrary to expectations, the book reveals that despite the Czechoslovak Communist regime's brutality in many areas of life, the state did not carry out a hateful or seditious campaign against homosexual and non-heterosexual people. Rather, the official state sexology offices functioned from the late 1970s onward as essentially the first gay clubs in socialist Czechoslovakia. Interweaving the memories of non-heterosexual Czech women born between 1929 and 1952, Vera Sokolov 's study both enriches and challenges existing scholarship on lesbian and gay history during this era, promising to radically change the way we view gender, sexuality, and everyday life during East European socialism.Trade Review"Sokolov 's work is an excellent study in the contradictions of state socialism. Her oral history of non-heterosexual people and Czech sexologists showcases how policy pressure toward homogeneity and suppression of individuality and otherness was countered by expert discourse and practice."--Libora Oates-Indruchov , University of Graz "Queer Encounters offers many . . . counterintuitive surprises. Sokolov finds that the socialist Czechoslovak state did not target homosexuals for persecution. In fact, the offices of sexologists became in the 1970s places for gay, trans, and lesbian men and women to hang out. Most surprisingly, Sokolov argues that by refusing to diagnose and name 'homosexuality' in Czechoslovak society, the state gave individuals the freedom to choose their own sexual identities and genders and to live them out in fascinating ways. Based on oral history and archival research, Queer Encounters will change the way we view socialist culture."--Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague:
Book SynopsisFollowing their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situation since these older adults grew up under a communist regime where an obligation to work was enshrined in law and living on the street could result in a prison sentence. Based on three years of research, this book provides a slew of data-based statistical insights, analyzing the efficacy of relief provided by both the state and nonprofit organizations, detailing how the clients of such organizations rate their services, to what extent they accept assistance, and whether they believe it has helped them. More importantly, it features extensive interviews with real people, making it the first Czech book on this issue to present homelessness from the perspective of those who live with it every day. Table of ContentsI. Introduction1. Specification of the problem1.1 Our objectives1.2 Methodology1.3 A description of the group under examination II. Life prior to becoming homeless1. Homeless people rate their childhood and family of origin 1.1 Current relationships betwe
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Events Over Endeavours – Image of the Chinese in
Book SynopsisThe contemporary Chinese engagement in Africa dates back to the 1950's, and it has gained momentum in the last two decades. The Chinese presence in African countries has been getting more and more visible; not only the number of Chinese investments in the area and international agreements has been increasing, but also the size of the Chinese diaspora in the region has grown. China has been looking for new sources of natural resources and markets on which the 'made in China' goods would be welcomed, therefore it spares no efforts to establish and maintain possibly good relationships with Africa, especially with political elites of African countries. At first, the Chinese expansion was supported by the country's image of an older brother, a co-victim of the Western domination, and a example to be followed on the the path leading to development. This image, however, has started to be covered with some spots and shadows, caused by various Chinese activities. In this book we aimed to sketch the image of China and the Chinese in Zambia and Angola, presented by textual media and citizens of these countries, and to trace the most important factors influencing it. Moreover, we brought up some possible consequences of the prevalence of a particular – positive or negative – image for the future development of the Chinese expansion in the region.To obtain the possibly detailed image, we decided to combine quantitative and qualitative analysis of media content with results of our field work conducted in Africa.Trade ReviewThe study is focused on the extraordinarily important topical problem of the Chinese expansion in Africa. Both the applied innovative methodology and the new approach towards the Sino-African relations, focused on the perception of the Chinese presence in the region, are the factors that distinguish this work. [ ] As the authors themselves state, in the summary they try to avoid drawing generalising conclusions; rather, they focus on pointing out the differences in the perception of China and the Chinese between Angola and Zambia. Acknowledging the increasing importance of the perception of China and the Chinese in Africa as an important factor influencing Sino-African relations constitutes the most valuable conclusion of the study. -- Prof. Dominik Mierzejewski, University of Lodz
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Participatory Social Work – Research, Practice,
Book SynopsisAs contemporary social work is challenged on the one hand by increasing and multidimensional social diversity and, on the other hand, an increasing emphasis on building a civil society based on activity, equality, and participation, the demand for research and debates relating to a participatory social work paradigm has been raised. Its rapid development is manifested not only by a theoretical shift or introduction of new research techniques and methods, but most of all by empowerment of the service users. It has given an impetus to the emergence of participatory research teams or, in the more radical viewpoints, to the gradual de-academization of both the empirical and theoretical aspects of social work. Eventually, expertise and commitment of participatory advisory bodies are reflected today in the sociopolitical decisions found in many countries.For enthusiasts of participatory social work, recognition of service users’ perspective and civic activities in both academic discourse and daily practice perpetuate democratization of the social service system. They maintain uneven power distribution in both frameworks of elitist research and in practical models of social work. However, there is a growing body of opinion that participatory practices are only a more intelligent tool of contemporary societies’ governance. Whichever approach one takes, participatory social work raises anew the issues of credibility of knowledge, processes of its creation and use, the purpose of social work, its relationship to politics, and—above all—the role and competences of a social worker (co-)constructing social change in partnership with and not just for the service users.This collective monograph considers thoroughly some of the above issues and many more. We focus not only on current state but most of all on raising controversial issues to encourage debate, reflection and discussion concerning participatory social work with a special attention given to participatory research. It offers new cross-national insight into participatory social work as well as discussion of its barriers and side effects. As a collective monograph prepared by an international team of researchers, it should help social workers, social pedagogues, politicians, sociologists, social activists, etc. from different geographic and sociocultural contexts to develop reflections on the implications and consequences of doing their research and practice in participatory manners.Trade ReviewThe book is the result of a longer discussion about PAR in different contexts. This book focuses on methodological and practical experiences of PAR in a more radical perspective. But not only opportunities but although pitfalls and challenges are worked out. It has been possible to represent international authors (and international means in that book actually more than one or two nation states)! In general, the book is a very important and new perspective on PAR in international discourse. The book is innovative, because new perspectives on PAR were worked out. Both research-practical and methodological aspects are reflected. Particularly important are the arguments and experience with clients as co-researchers. Practical examples of good practice are shown here. This is particularly noteworthy, since there is nowadays less concrete experiences with peer research. Also new is the examination of questions about education and studies. -- Graßhoff Gunther, University of Hildesheim
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st-Century Prose:
Book SynopsisFaces of Crisis in 20th-and 21st-Century Prose. An Anthology of Criticism offers a unique overview of the motif of crisis tackled by 20th-and 21st-century novelists. In one way or another, crisis has always been an inevitable part of our lives and it is still a central aspect of the contemporary world, in which we are constantly inundated with information about economic, environmental, and health threats.The anthology is divided into three parts pertaining to the main themes of the articles. The first section "Selves in Crisis" is concerned with personal and identity crisis. The second part "Bonds in Crisis" is devoted to interpersonal relationships and family ties. The third section "Worlds in Crisis" deals with threats on a global scale, both in the present and in the future. Focused on the main theme, literary scholars from different European universities tackle the problem of crisis from various perspectives, analysing works by authors such as James Joyce, Vita Sackville-West, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Daphne du Maurier, D.H. Lawrence, B.S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Zoë Wicomb, Rachel Seiffert, Sarah Waters, Diane Setterfield, Boualem Sansal, Philip K. Dick, and Suketu Mehta.The anthology opens with the article "Literature as Crisis" written by Dr Richard Brown from the University of Leeds, UK. Other articles are authored by young scholars representing universities both in Poland and abroad.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Manifestations of Male Image in the World′s
Book SynopsisManifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures shows a single cultural phenomenon from a number of diverse perspectives. Methods used to analyze the titular male image range from Literary Studies and Cultural Studies to Media Studies. Thanks to the Authors' broad experience in various fields of academic research, the volume presents this highly layered theme in a truly interdisciplinary way. This multiauthored – and therefore "polyphonic" – collection as a truly original attempt to build a framework of humanistic thought that is based on clear theoretical and methodological criteria. Moreover, its open character allows the use and merging of a number of humanistic methods, such as the aforementioned Literary or Cultural Studies, with other inspirations that, layer by layer, add the depth and provide further insight into the relationship between the male image and broadly understood cultural practices.
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Promopress Architecture in Context: Contemporary Design
Book SynopsisArchitecture in Context analyzes the work of contemporary international architects through the presentation of projects that exemplify their architectural vision and their connection with the spaces with which they work. It explains how the interaction between architecture and landscape is a pivotal aspect, and it describes the design strategies that architects use to insert buildings into the landscape with minimal environmental impact. At the center of designers' work, we find an attention to the identity of the place and the environment, consideration of cultural and social values, and observation of the intrinsic characteristics of the local site and materials. Presenting projects of different scales and sizes, from airports to museums, schools, private houses, public buildings, hotels, and industrial sites, this volume offers up a wide array of the most significant architectural projects by the most respected contemporary architects around the world. Projects: Azerbaijan: Autoban, Heydar Aliyev International Airport (Baku). China: Li Xiaodong Atelier, Liyuan Library (Beijing). Chile: Cazu Zegers Arquitectura, Tierra Patagonia Hotel (Torres del Paine); Rodrigo Duque Motta, Elqui Domos Astronomical Hotel (Pisco Elqui, Paihuano). Colombia: El Equipo Mazzanti, Parque Biblioteca Espana (Medellin). Denmark: 3XN, Frederiksberg Courthouse (Copenhagen). France: 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo, Renovation of Les Docks (Marseille). Italy: Diverserighestudio, Opificio Golinelli (Bologna); Pietro Carlo Pellegrini Architetto, Secondary School (Riccione); MCA Mario Cucinella Architects, Municipal Nursery School (Guastalla); Enzo Eusebi + Partners, Salpi Plant (Preci). Portugal: ANDRE, Casa do Vigario (Paredes). Senegal: Toshiko Mori Architect, Thread Artist Residency and Cultural Center (Sinthian). South Africa: Peter Rich Architects, Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre (Limpopo). The Netherlands: Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Rozet Cultural Center (Arnhem). UK: Steven Holl Architects, Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art (Glasgow). USA: Diller Scofidio + Renfro, The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center (New York); Michael Maltzan Architecture, Star Apartments (Los Angeles); Thomas Phifer and Partners, Corning Museum of Glass Extension (Corning).
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Aarhus University Press Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark
Book SynopsisCultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century. Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities.The sixteen contributions in this volume analyse how competing national agendas influenced the development of political life as well as literature, the visual arts, and music. A central theme is the cultural conflicts that formed an essential part of nineteenth-century nation-building. Culturally as well as politically, boundaries were drawn up, ideologies were formulated and discussed, and determined attempts were made to suppress divergent cultural voices in the drive to forge strong national or Scandinavian narratives. The results of these conflicts were the enduring cultural struggles that form the subject of this volume.The contributions at hand, by scholars from Denmark, Britain, Norway, the United States, and Germany, bring a broad and interdisciplinary perspective to bear on these distinctively Nordic themes. Aimed both at students and at established scholars, the chapters discuss the many facets of nationalism, its cultures, and its countercultures, as well as revisiting the historiography of the 1800–1930 period with a more pluralistic approach.
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Aarhus University Press Democratization in the Nordic World
Book SynopsisThe Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) enjoy some of the happiest populations and highest standards of living in the world, thanks in part to stable, democratic systems of government. Here, David Delfs Erbo Andersen presents a syncretic history of political and socioeconomic developments in the three Scandinavian countries since the early modern period, and contrasts their peaceful transitions with the more dramatic histories of otherwise similar European countries, like France and Germany. Unlike these and many other countries—the United States among them—Scandinavia’s transition to democracy from monarchy was not marked by major violent upheavals or extreme political antagonism. Rather, Scandinavia’s peaceful process of democratization owed itself to the development of a penetrative bureaucracy in the early modern period and the activism of cooperative associations, first of farmers in the early nineteenth century and then of industrialized workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thanks to the gradual, relatively consensual adoption of political reforms and social norms, the history of ”Nordic democratic exceptionalism” today helps account for the ongoing stability of the Scandinavian countries.
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Leiden University Press Health-related votive tablets from Japan: Ema for
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Leiden University Press Staging Asia: The Dutch East India Company and
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Stolpe Publishing Society in Crisis: Our Capacity for Adaptation
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Bokforlaget Stolpe The History of Alchemy Influences on culture
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United Nations Gender responsive standards
Book SynopsisThis publication provides recommendations to governments and standards bodies to improve voluntary norms and standards for gender equality and women's empowerment. This best practice is based on the broad analysis contained herein, which includes examples of gender-blind standards that have resulted in sub-optimal outcomes for women as professionals, consumers, and members of wider communities. To maximize the relevance of the research, the publication references three main families of standards: voluntary sustainability standards; standards related to agriculture and produce; and standards developed by regional, national and international bodies relating to goods and services. It also highlights actions necessary for the international community going forward, presenting in detail the UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Initiative and encouraging standards bodies to sign and implement the Declaration on Gender Responsive Standards
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United Nations Natural Resource nexuses in the ECE region
Book SynopsisIncreasing demand for natural resources, most of which are not renewable, changing climates and technologies, urbanisation, growing populations, societal demand and inequalities, globalisation and other megatrends are putting pressure on natural resources. There are many complex policy issues and difficult choices to be made, which necessitate a comprehensive nexus approach that can address the many interactions and trade-offs involved. This publication reviews the situation, trends, challenges and main interactions for the five natural resources of the nexus - water, energy, food, land and materials. Three interlinkages which are very relevant to the Natural Resource Nexus, namely, statistics, transport and trade, both of which are addressed by the UNECE
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United Nations Beyond the pandemic: building back better from
Book SynopsisSince early 2020, COVID-19 (coronavirus) has triggered unprecedented and globally-synchronized health, social and economic crises. With hard-won development gains and progress in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific now under threat, this publication analyzes the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic in the region. It recognizes actions taken and offers recommendations to policymakers for building back better, in line with the SDGs, and for fostering resilience, in anticipation of future pandemics and similar widescale crises. The publication also focuses on a number of areas for regional cooperation, in particular: strengthening social protection; ensuring a sustained economic recovery; strengthening sustainable regional connectivity and supply chains; and protecting and restoring ecosystems
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United Nations World population policies 2017: abortion laws and
Book SynopsisThis publication provides an overview of laws and policies relating to induced abortion. It includes consideration of the various legal grounds for abortion and selected requirements for induced abortion, including gestational limits, the number of personnel required to authorise an abortion, mandatory third-party consent, and compulsory counselling and waiting periods
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Society and Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe most amazing part of this book is Childe's personal beliefs, which form the major part of this volume.
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The Chinese University Press Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism
Book SynopsisWithin this text, the contributors provide a historical perspective on the development of anthropology and sociology since their introduction to Chinese thought and education in the early 20th century, with an emphasis on the 1930s and 1980s. The authors offer different windows on theoretical and research agendas of anthropologists and sociologists of the PRC and Taiwan, shaped as much by their political context as by disciplinary training. In examining the careers of several individual scholars, they also make note not only of their creative contributions, but also of the resonance of their intellectual concerns with contemporary issues in sociology and anthropology (culturalism, frontiers, women).
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University of the West Indies Press They Do as They Please: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom After Morant Bay
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University of the West Indies Press Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of
Book Synopsis“The contributors to this volume have found the language and concepts by which to interpret Leonard Howell and the origins of the Rastafari movement in the 1930s. This volume is richly documented from the archives, and from interviews, and is informed by multidisciplinary methods, so the reader is treated to an authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays. “Leonard Howell was persecuted over five decades by the British colonial state and by Jamaican governments since independence in 1962. It is in this context that Howell defined the main tenets of the movement, a movement that has now spread globally. All the major themes of his thinking, such as African redemption, the divinity of Haile Selassie, repatriation, and the struggle for freedom and self-reliance are discussed. Howell challenged British colonialism and Jamaican elites in a very different way from the approaches used by the middle-class intelligentsia. He focused, rather, on a new way of seeing God, King and self, thus creating an alternative way of being in the world. Developing Marcus Garvey’s focus on Africa, Leonard Howell and his followers reclaimed their ancestral identity from the dehumanized condition left by British slavery and colonialism. Howell’s communal settlement on ‘Pinnacle’ was an alternative communal space for Rastafari artisans, musicians and peasant farmers.”—Rupert Lewis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Openness in Practice: Understanding Attitudes to
Book SynopsisThis book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available. Based on interviews with practitioners, users and evangelists across three Australian-based case studies illustrating contemporary open data practices, this book discusses how open data has evolved, why certain barriers to openness exist and what the future of open data might look like. It highlights both the challenges and approaches to ‘best practice’ in government departments and agencies as they adapt to changing data ecosystems and public expectations around access, transparency, risk and responsible stewardship.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. What is Open Data? Historical and Instrumental Perspectives 3. Comparing Open Data Programs in Victoria, Australia 4: Working in Open Data 5: Open Data Futures
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Springer Verlag, Singapore ICT Systems and Sustainability: Proceedings of
Book SynopsisThis book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 6th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2021), held in Goa, India, on 5–6 August 2021. The book covers the topics such as big data and data mining, data fusion, IoT programming toolkits and frameworks, green communication systems and network, use of ICT in smart cities, sensor networks and embedded system, network and information security, wireless and optical networks, security, trust, and privacy, routing and control protocols, cognitive radio and networks, and natural language processing. Bringing together experts from different countries, the book explores a range of central issues from an international perspective.Table of ContentsSentiment Analysis of Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout in India.- Empirical Analysis of Static and Dynamic Stopword Generation Approaches.- Text Mining and Machine Learning algorithms to Identifying diseases and providing repair action using ICD-10 codes.- Automated Medical Symptoms Summarization and Patient Profiling System.- Design and Improvement in the Performance of Multi-band House Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna with SRR based Metamaterial for 5G Applications.- Smart Shoe Provides Vision to Visionless person.- Family Of Friends – A Hostel Utility System.- A Scalable framework for High Performance Computing with Cloud.- Model For Intrusion Detection In Cyber Physical System To Address Network Simulation.- Vulnerability Due to Training Order in Split Learning.- Literature survey for MIMO systems and Interference cancellation in MIMO.- Design and Implementation of Laptop Tracking System based on Cloud Computing and IoT.- Mapping and Change Detection of Mangroves using Remote Sensing and Google Earth Engine: A Case Study.- Modeling Human Tendencies for Password Guessing.- Towards a Framework for Context-Aware Intelligent Transportation System: Case of Kigali.- Language Agnostic Generation of Syntactically Incorrect Programs.- Application of Java Relationship Graphs to Academics for Detection of Plagiarism in Java Projects.- Feature Extraction for Automatic Grading of Students’ Presentations.- Cloud-enabled Education-as-a-Service (EaaS) - A Review.- Decoding Visual Covert Attention Shift from EEG for use in BCI.- Digital Storytelling and ICTs for Education to Foster Sustainable Development.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Proceeding of International Conference on
Book SynopsisThis book consists of high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2021), held at Maharashtra Institute of Technology World Peace University, Pune, India, from 10 – 11 December 2021. It covers the latest innovations and developments in information and communication technology, discussing topics such as algorithms, data structures and applications; wireless and mobile networks; computer networks and communications; natural language processing and information theory; cryptography and information security.Table of ContentsNovel Approach for Feature Selection Using Genetic Algorithm.- A User-Driven COVID-19 Diseases Contact Tracing System.- A Study of Genetic Mutations, Amplification, Deletion and Fusion in Endocrine Resistant Advanced Breast Cancer.- TrueReview—A Review Scraper and Analyzer for Customer Product Reviews for E-commerce Sites using Text Mining.- Survey of Sentence Scoring Techniques for Extractive Text Summarization
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Rural Technology Development and Delivery
Book SynopsisThis book comprises the proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Rural Technology Development and Delivery organized by Rural Technology Action group Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. The book highlights research on demand driven technologies and innovations, mostly on energy, environment, water resources, livelihood and smart technologies for the development of rural India. Spanning multi-disciplinary research aspects on rural technologies and development, this book would be useful for rural entrepreneurs, researchers, students and academic/R&D institutions for getting them involved in appropriate rural technology and development.Table of ContentsSl. No. Paper Title Innovative designs for rural livelihoods 1. Technology Interventions taken by RuTAG Centre IIT Roorkee- A Review 2. Modified Bageshwari Wool Charkha 3. Farm Household Accounting System for Financial analysis in Distressed Area of Rural India 4. Multi-criteria based analysis for prioritization of solid waste treatment methods for rural areas 5. Development of an AC Motor Powered Device for Making Tulsi Mala Beads 6. Scale Down Tea Processing Unit: Appropriate and Sustainable Technology for Small Tea Growers 7. Design and development of a one-step process for the extraction of lac resin 8. Design and Performance Evaluation of a Chironji Decortication Machine 9. Designing Minor Millets De-hulling Machine 10. Interventions in Hirda Collection and Processing for Optimal Utilization and Value Addition 11. A Numerical Model-Based Optimization of Design Parameters of Treadle Pump for Irrigation of Farms in Tribal Regions 12. Dissolution characteristics of lac dye 13. An ergonomic study for the development of low-cost work station for tribal Sal leaf plate makers 14. Stability Analysis of Electric Paddy Cleaning Machine 15. Integrated Development to Bridge Urban-Rural Divide of India 16. Usability Assessment of Pedal Threshing Operation in Rice Farming 17. Appropriate Technologies and Local Economy 18. Appropriate Technology : Gandhian Perspective 19. Rural Livelihoods – Technological Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation 20. Digital Fabrication (Fab Lab) for Appropriate Technology 21. Innovative Technologies for Pottery 22. Technological Interventions for Rural Development 23. Solar Powered cooling plastic bags for flower vendors 24. Improving shelf life of Padhaneer 25. Design of sensor based standalone system to protect the farming land from wild boar intrusion using hybrid Alarming Energy applications in rural areas 26. Development of a Gasifier Based Integrated Bioenergy System for Cooking Applications in Rural Areas 27. Solar lamps for rural India: Longitudinal study on awareness, motivation and willingness to pay 28. Solar induction cooker 29. Steady-State Analytical Modelling of Cook stove Insulation for Improving efficiency 30. Renewable Energy Technologies and Policies for Rural Sector 31. Energy in Circular Economy 32. Low cost solar powered portable refrigerator Rural water resources 33. Development of Cold Storage Powered by Pico Hydro Power 34. Sustainable Water Management using Ancient Tank Cascade Technology in Rural Areas: A Review 35. Need for BIG data tools and Crowd Sourcing for Rural Natural Resource Management Case study using Groundwater App 36. Impact of Urbanization on Ground and Surface Water Interactions for Tank Cascade System 37. Integrating rural livelihoods with the "Million Wells for Bengaluru" programme & Rainwater Harvesting as a tool for Water Literacy in Rural Schools Rural landscapes / Rural Environment 38. History of Indian sanitation and paradigm shift required for rural sanitation 39. Adopting Bio-reinforcement Techniques for the Stabilization of Bench Terraces 40. Evergreen Village, Water and Energy Nexus 41. Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Plants feed on soil bacteria 42. Green Resilient Rameswaram Smart technologies for rural development 43. Implementation of Experimental Tools in Elementary Education for Improving Science Education 44. Twitter and print media data in formulating rural health care policy in India 45. Wireless LED Display Boards in Rural Areas Using IOT 46. Automation of high density fish breeding 47. Hands on Learning through Device Engineering During the Formative Years 48. Augmented Learning in Schools: using technology for improving learning outcomes 49. Development of cost effective braille note-taker and printer for visually impaired people Interdisciplinary topics 50. Technology Challenges in Rural Entrepreneurship 51. Technology & Policy in Rural Development
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Society 5.0, Digital Transformation and
Book SynopsisThis book presents the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan and analyzes the critical community and local governance issues from the perspectives of the changing risk landscape, Society 5.0, and digital transformation. It also provides suggestions for the future development of a resilient society and community, by drawing lessons from other countries.Advancements in science technology in recent decades in Japan and the world might have increased our capacity to tackle the adverse human consequences of various kinds of disasters and environmental issues. However, the accompanied and interlinking phenomena of urbanization, climate change, rural to urban migration, population decreases, and aged population have posed new challenges, especially in the small, medium-sized cities, and in rural areas of Japan. This is also enhanced by the risk of cascading, complex and systemic risk, which is defining a new normal as “living with uncertainties”.Society 5.0 is defined as "A human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space." Society 5.0 was proposed in the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan as a future society that Japan should aspire to. Society 5.0 achieves a high degree of convergence between cyberspace (virtual space) and physical space (real space), compared with the past information society (Society 4.0) that people would access a cloud service (databases) in cyberspace via the Internet and search for, retrieve, and analyze information or data.In Japan, in the initial stage, a great deal of confusion about the number of people infected with coronavirus occurred. Not only made it inefficient, but it did not produce the accurate data needed for critical decisions.Japan may have unique disadvantages compared with other countries. Trying to drive digitization without thoroughly understanding these disadvantages and addressing them head-on will only lead to failed digital transformations.With these three pillars of changing risk landscape, Society 5.0, and Digital transformation drive, the book will analyze the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan, will go deeper into the critical community and local governance issues, and will provide suggestions for future development of resilient society and community, by drawing lessons from overseas disaster risk reduction.Table of Contents1. Science technology and People centered society 2. Science, Technology, Innovation and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 3. Systemic risk and system-based approach for Society 5.0 4. Emerging issues and Japan’s milestones in science and technology in disaster risk reduction 5. Evidence Based Policy Making of Smart City: The Case of Challenge in Maebashi City, Japan 6. Personal life records for health decision making in disaster situation 7. Digital transformation and disaster risk reduction 8. xR and implications to DRR: challenges and prospects 9. Open governance and disaster risk reduction 10. Open Governance and Disaster Planning, Recovery, and Response: Lessons from the USA 11. Technology landscape in post COVID-19 era: Example from China 12. Jugaad innovation: concept and lessons of social innovation in India 13. Towards a People centric technology driven society
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Digital Global Condition
Book SynopsisThis book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities. Although globalization is already associated with the speeding up of interactions and change, digital globalization is characterized by immediacy. The utter pervasiveness opens new global vulnerabilities at international, national, social and personal levels. The Digital Global Condition examines the nature of digital globalization, enabling us to not only inhabit a digital world, but also to understand it, even to live well in it.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - The Digital Global Condition.- Chapter 2 - The Imagined Latent Zone: How the myth of cultural authenticity survived the Covid-19 lockdowns.- Chapter 3 - Disruptive Technologies and New Threat Multipliers.- Chapter 4 - Digital ‘Natives’: Unsettling the Colony through Digital Technology.- Chapter 5 - Dangerous Misogyny of the Digital World.- Chapter 6 - Technology and lawyering: On legal practice and value in a digital age.- Chapter 7 - The Digital Power Paradox: US-China Competition, Semiconductors, and Weaponized Interdependence.- Chapter 8 - The political economy of digital educational content and the transformation of learning and teaching in global higher education.- Chapter 9 - Becoming Digital? University Learning and Teaching in the Digital Information Ecology.- Chapter 10 - Digital Inter-est: On being together in a global digital world.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies,
Book SynopsisSports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape – from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Sports, Society, and Technology.Section I: Practices, Productions, and Knowledges.2. True Bounce: Stories of Dunlop and the Rise of Vulcanized Play.3. Manufacturing Invisibility in “the Field”: Distributed Ethics, Wearable Technologies, and the Case of Exercise Physiology.4. The Tangled Multiplicities of CTE: Scientific Uncertainty and the Infrastructures of Traumatic Brain Injury.5. The Agency of Numbers: The Role of Metrics in Influencing the Valuation of Athletes.6. The Numbers Game: Collegiate Esports and the Instrumentation of Movement Performance.Section II: Bodies/Matter.7. Possibilities of Feminist Technoscience Studies of Sport: Beyond the Cyborg Body.8. Enacting Bodies: The Multiplicity of Whey Protein and the Making of Corporealities.9. The (In)Active Body Multiple: An Examination of How Prenatal Exercise ‘Matters’.10. Ignorance and the Gender Binary: Resistance to Complex Epistemologies of Sex and Testosterone.11. Screening Saviors?: Biopolitics, College Sport, and Screening.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Space and Beyond: Professional Voyage of K.
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the journey of Dr. K Kasturirangan, who shares his experience during his long tenure at ISRO including the Chairmanship of ISRO, subsequently membership of the Rajya Sabha, the Planning Commission and many other responsibilities. Over the past five decades of public and professional service to the nation, Dr. Kasturirangan has graduated from a young researcher in astrophysics working under Vikram Sarabhai to leading India’s space program (ISRO), being entrusted by five successive Prime Ministers, besides dealing with several other domains of responsibilities beyond space, all of which have significantly impacted India’s development. This book centers around select 12 public invited lectures, Dr. Kasturirangan delivered ranging from developing hi-tech space systems, to managing an organization as intricate as ISRO which was guided by the wisdom of mentors, including Vikram Sarabhai, M G K Menon, Satish Dhawan and U. R. Rao, to tackling multi-faceted socio-economic issues, including India’s nuclear deal, report headed by him on the Western Ghats ecosystem, and the new National Education Policy 2020. Scientists, historians, policy makers, management strategists, journalists, or anyone with a keen interest in understanding the processes behind such large-scale science, technology and socio-economic endeavors – right from planning, creating appropriate institutional mechanisms, working with multiple stakeholders to ensure that these programs deliver tangible benefits to society, articulating these benefits with clarity to political leaders to assure public support – will find this book deeply instructive and illuminating. It will be of interest to the scientific, education and management community as well as to policy makers and researchers affiliated with multifaceted developmental issues. Table of ContentsReflections of a Long Journey.- Forays into the World of Astronomy, Technology and Space.- Space - An Innovative Route to Development.- India’s Space Enterprise; Strategic Thinking and Planning.- A Profile of Space for the next 50 years.- Space Odyssey – A Down-to-Earth Perspective.- Evolution of Earth Observation Capabilities in India.- Science and Technology of Imaging from Space.- Satellite Navigation.- Space Science in India : Two Initiatives.
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ISEAS Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early
Book SynopsisThis volume seeks to foreground a borderless history and geography of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be maritime-focused, and thereby explore the ancient connections and dynamics of interaction that favoured the encounters among the cultures found throughout the region stretching from the Indian Ocean littorals to the Western Pacific, from the early historical period to the present. Transcending the artificial boundaries of macro-regions and nation-states, and trying to bridge the arbitrary divide between (inherently cosmopolitan) high cultures (e.g. Sanskritic, Sinitic, or Islamicate) and local or indigenous cultures, this multidisciplinary volume explores the metaphor of Monsoon Asia as a vast geo-environmental area inhabited by speakers of numerous language phyla, which for millennia has formed an integrated system of littorals where crops, goods, ideas, cosmologies, and ritual practices circulated on the sea-routes governed by the seasonal monsoon winds. The collective body of work presented in the volume describes Monsoon Asia as an ideal theatre for circulatory dynamics of cultural transfer, interaction, acceptance, selection, and avoidance, and argues that, despite the rich ethnic, linguistic and sociocultural diversity, a shared pattern of values, norms, and cultural models is discernible throughout the region.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Timescapes of Health Illness and Care
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Springer Verlag, Singapore ICT Cyber Security and Applications
Book SynopsisThis book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2023: Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Proceedings of Ninth International Congress on
Book SynopsisThis open access book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held in London, on February 1922, 2024.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Proceedings of Eighth International Congress on
Book SynopsisThis book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Eighth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on 20–23 February 2023. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for managerial applications, e-governance, e-agriculture, e-education and computing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and e-mining. Written by respected experts and researchers working on ICT, the book offers a valuable asset for young researchers involved in advanced studies. The work is presented in four volumes.Table of ContentsEMG Controlled Modular Prosthetic Hand – Design and Prototyping.- Application of Super Resolution for optical character recognition in low quality images.- Emotion recognition using electroencephalogram signals and a 1-D local binary pattern for an ML-classification-based approach.- User Clustering in mm wave Quality of Service Based Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (QNOMA) for Vehicular Network.- A Study of the Potential of Online Learning of Kasetsart University Faculty Members.- Anomalous-Aggressive Event Detection Techniques.- Robot-based auto-labeling system for 6D pose estimation.- Rehabilitation of the Lower Limb Motor Skills for Patients Using Cable-Driven Robot.- Knowledge Management in Integrated Media for Public Relation on Innovative Thai Cuisine to Global Market Project.- A new architecture for Diabetes prediction using data mining, deep learning and ensemble algorithms.- A New Method and Case Study for Predicting Tutoring Performance in Students at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana using Data Science and Support Vector Machines.- A Study on the Pressure Sensor for Estimating the Load Point in a Prosthetic Socket.- Modification of Dijkstra’s Algorithm for Best Alternative Routes.- Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Mobile Networks in Macao based on Field Test Data.- A security-based e-government adoption framework: An outcome of a systematic literature review.- Content Moderator Startle Response: A Qualitative Study.- Disparity of Abstract Color Representations in Convolutional Networks.- Sentiment Analysis About the Popular Soccer Player Mbappe on Social Media and Newspapers.- Sentiments Analysis on the Implementation of Online Learning in the Philippines using Visual Analytics.- Real-Time Multi-Class Classification of Water Quality Using MLP and Ensemble Learning.- BellChat: An Inclusive Web Application for Messaging.- Hydration Automation (HA): Smart Tank.- Improving The Resume Verification Process Of Financial Professionals Using Blockchain Smart Contracts.
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