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Affaires et économie, Économie, Politique et gouvernement, Essais et documents généraux
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This book provides a critical analysis of the political and conflict impacts of “good governance” public finance reforms, showing how…
unintended distributional outcomes can undermine broader state‑building goals.The international community expends enormous resources trying to build “good governance” institutions in countries emerging from war. By ensuring efficiency, increasing transparency, and enhancing public accountability in the use of public resources, the adoption of “good governance” institutions is assumed to support stability, peace, and sustainable economic growth. Such assumptions, however, have a limited empirical basis and obscure a more complex reality. Drawing from political science and institutional economics, and evidence from major state‑building interventions in Afghanistan, Timor‑Leste, and Solomon Islands, this book explores the impacts of technocratic “good governance” reforms in fragile environments. Through the lens of public finance reform, it illustrates how efforts to achieve efficiency and accountability, while often bringing important benefits, can also undercut the patronage channels that draw together powerful elites, thereby increasing conflict pressures and eroding prospects for sustainable peace. This book makes the case for a reconsideration of the “good governance” agenda and the appropriateness of its application in developing countries experiencing or at risk of war.This book will be of interest to students of state‑building, global governance, political economy, development studies, and International Relations.
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Affaires et économie, Textes religieux, Religion
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International migration is a growing phenomenon in the 21st century and is increasingly seen as a high-priority public policy issue…
by many governments, politicians, and the broader public throughout the world. Its importance to economic prosperity, human development, and safety and security ensures that it will remain a top priority for the foreseeable future.This book highlights the importance of ensuring that we remain focused on the successes of migration as well as the challenges. At the end of the 20th century, more importance was given to immigrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship due to its positive impact on local economic growth and overall economic development in the hosting nations. In the 21st century, the imperative of the United Nations 2030 agenda involves a deeper understanding of the complex challenges for the achievement of sustainable goals. One of these challenges is to understand how migrant-entrepreneurs may or may not identify with their ethnic community, therefore dissociating themselves from their ethnic group. In this sense, religion and ethnicity are differentiating factors between social groups, and the relationships allow preserving their culture and establishing relationships and integration in the community at all levels. This edited volume brings together impactful contributions that will interest multidisciplinary academic areas and aims to contribute to the enhancement of scientific knowledge on the intersection of entrepreneurship, migration, ethnicity, and religion, a gap in the existing literature that has the potential to provide a deeper understanding of factors that influence migrant populations’ contribution to socio-economic development in their communities.This book will be an invaluable resource to researchers and scholars in the fields of immigration, immigrant entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial culture, and economic development.
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Affaires et économie, Psychologie, Essais et documents généraux
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Social Network Analysis and Text Mining for Big Data presents cutting-edge methods and tools that bridge the gap between text…
mining and social network analysis research while also providing new insights for analyzing (big) textual and network data. These tools are designed to cater to the needs of both business analysts and researchers to facilitate the creation of groundbreaking analytics.Beginning with clear definitions of social network analysis and text mining, this book benefits from a thoughtfully curated selection of methods and tools, drawn from the authors’ extensive research in the field. The focus then shifts to demonstrate how the interplay between words and networks can unlock the full potential of big data analytics. A centerpiece of the book is the Semantic Brand Score (SBS), a versatile and powerful metric for assessing brand importance through text analysis. All of the above is corroborated and illustrated with practical applications and case studies showing the value of these analytics in supporting change and improved managerial decisions. It also introduces a specialized software tool which enables users to perform the analyses detailed in the text.This book is a must-read for business leaders, marketing professionals, policymakers, researchers, and university students. It offers practical insights and actionable advice for achieving increased performance of companies and societal actions. The writing is tailored to make complex concepts accessible to both experienced researchers and readers who are new to the field.
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Philosophie
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This book explores Fichte's theory of sensibility, focusing on its theoretical and practical significance. It offers unique insight into Fichte’s…
reinterpretation of Kant's aesthetic theory.Fichte's theory of sensibility can be found in his unpublished manuscript Practical Philosophy (1793/94). The author approaches this text as Fichte's attempt to reorganize Kant’s transcendental aesthetic and aesthetic of pure practical reason into a unified whole. The first half contains one of the first chapter-length studies of Abicht’s Attempt at a Metaphysics of Gratification (1789) and Fichte’s Practical Philosophy. In this section, the author examines the context and development of a “philosophy of striving” in Practical Philosophy, explains the background of Fichte’s aesthetics, and provides a concise discussion of Kant’s sensationalist view of pleasure. The second half explores how the investigations in Practical Philosophy reemerge in the Jena period through the theory of aesthetic experience and artistic creation, theory of moral deliberation, and theory of truth and justification (particularly in philosophy) and illustrates the pivotal role Fichte assigns to feelings in human spiritual development.Fichte’s Aesthetic of Striving will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the history of modern philosophy, the history of aesthetics, German idealism, and 19th-century philosophy.
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Affaires et économie
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Trust, Sustainability, and Resilience: Management and Consumer Perspectives offers a comprehensive exploration of the key concepts shaping today’s world. This…
book examines the complex relationship between trust, sustainability, and resilience across various domains, providing insights into their significant implications for both organizations and consumers. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of the theoretical foundations and practical applications of these concepts from both management and consumer perspectives. Structured into two parts: the first part explores management perspectives, highlighting key issues and strategies, while the second part delves into consumer perspectives, examining the role of trust, sustainability, and resilience in shaping consumer behavior and preferences. This book is essential reading for academics, researchers, and practitioners interested in the intersection of trust, sustainability, and resilience. It provides valuable guidance for business leaders and policymakers seeking to integrate these principles into organizational strategies. Consumers and individuals interested in sustainable practices and responsible consumption will also find this book insightful. Whether studying management, environmental stewardship, or social sciences, this book offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and implementing trust, sustainability, and resilience principles for a better tomorrow.
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Loi et justice , Politique et gouvernement, Loi et crime, Essais et documents généraux
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Drawing on Ireland as its primary case study, this book is an in- depth critical examination of how rights protection…
bodies and mechanisms are experienced by those in prison in Ireland.Through its analysis of the Irish experience, the book considers the implementation of, and challenges faced by, human rights protection within the prison context, and explores some of the reforms that Ireland has undertaken in this area over the past 15 years, including the introduction of a new complaint system and establishment of an Office of the Inspector of Prisons. Using a wealth of information gathered through interviews and surveys of participants in three male prisons, the book sets out personal experiences of such mechanisms and identifies the key barriers to effective rights protection.Offering a detailed presentation of the international framework for the protection of prisoners’ rights through oversight mechanisms, and proposing methods for overcoming common barriers, Overseeing Rights in Prison: The Irish Experience of Human Rights Protection in Prisons will be of interest to students and scholars of criminology, particularly in relation to prisons and human rights.
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Coutumes et cultures, Essais et documents généraux
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This book examines the lived experiences of a group of Japanese women through their thirties, revealing the dynamic of human…
agency responding to the social changes of Japan’s ‘lost decades’.Exploring how these working-class women made choices and acted on them in pursuit of happiness through their thirties, the book highlights how, in so doing, they charted their various life course trajectories. Adopting a longitudinal ethnography approach, it tells the story of 18 Kobe women in real time based on their narratives at different points in time since 1989, when they were in high school. In this process, intra-class differentiation gradually emerged amongst the nontertiary-educated women with similar family backgrounds. The women maintained multiple identities based on their social roles in expanding human relationships (as mother, wife, daughter-in-law and singlehood) and gradually shifted in relative weight across these identities as they navigated their thirties.Demonstrating the collective potential of Japanese women to resist the dominant institutional practices and social norms, this book will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies and Japanese studies, particularly Japanese culture and society.
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Politique et gouvernement
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This book offers an original analysis of relations between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Albania, with a…
particular focus on the 2008–2025 period. It provides an inside perspective bringing together scholarly contributions from academics, researchers, and diplomats from both countries. As Kosovo and Albania are inhabited by an overwhelming majority of ethnic Albanians, relations are fraternal, deep, and extensive, with the two states signing numerous agreements and memoranda in the political, economic, educational, cultural and security fields. This special relationship is explored through innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, thus making the study both timely and relevant.The book will be of key interest to scholars, diplomats, and students focusing on Political Science, International Relations, History, Kosovo’s foreign policy, Albania’s foreign policy, and Southeast Europe.
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Informatique et Internet , Essais et documents généraux, Sciences et technologies
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This book covers analytic methods to solve one-dimensional and multi-dimensional problems with or without possible constraints, iterative numerical techniques based…
on the gradient calculation or its estimation, and numerical methods that do not require the knowledge of gradient and use only comparative iterative tests. This book provides the reader with a basic introduction to some traditional parameter optimization techniques. The presented problems and their solution methods represent a core of the parameter optimization reign since the 17th century to the 1970s. Linear and integer programming via the simplex table is also introduced. Two simple selected problems that are solved using dynamic programming principles are also given to the reader. A general approach to constraints via penalty and barrier functions is introduced. A concise introduction to the decision and game theory concludes the book. The book does not intend to provide the reader with a rigorous mathematic derivation of the presented methods. Its aim is instead to bring to the attention essential optimization tools for practitioners and undergraduate students and introduce selected well-established techniques to them when optimizing parameters of various models. Each method is described theoretically and supported by one or more numerical examples that vary from academic ones, through business economics to funny real-world problems that attract a broad audience. A sketch of Matlab code also follows numerical-based techniques. The author believes that the book finds its place in the libraries of many undergraduate students of various technical study programs and modern, thoughtful people worldwide, regardless of their expertise.
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Affaires et économie
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This open access book presents a novel Carbon Emission Liability Mechanism (CELM) and an integrated global Carbon Pricing Mechanism, based…
on a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of economic theory related to global climate change and the practice of carbon pricing instruments over the past 30 years. It further outlines a top-level design and implementation blueprint global based on CELM to achieve global carbon neutrality.For the first time, the CELM mechanism effectively addresses the three fundamental questions regarding carbon emissions: who should be liable for carbon emission, how much liability, and how to offset it. The introduction of CELM may unveil a feasible third path towards global carbon neutrality, and effectively address numerous challenges of carbon tax and Emission Trading System.CELM facilitates the creation of an efficient, cost-effective and comprehensive societal carbon footprint database, and addresses issues related to international carbon border regulation mechanism. While the world is struggling to tackcle the imminent climate crisis, CELM offers a refreshing global carbon neutrality solution, with its characteristics of more fair, more efficient, and less expensive, bringing new alternative options for the international community.
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Sciences et technologies
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Energy, Electrical, and Power Engineering are dynamic fields undergoing rapid change and innovation. This volume encompasses cutting-edge research and advances…
in electrical and power engineering, covering a wide range of topics including power electronics technology, renewable energy generation, intelligent control systems, and more. With contributions from renowned experts and scholars, it provides valuable insights and innovative solutions to address the challenges and opportunities in the ever-evolving energy landscape. This volume serves as a comprehensive resource for staying abreast of the latest trends and act as a catalyst for advancing this dynamic field. Following the success of the CoEEPE 2021, 2022 and 2023, this volume will provide resources for a diverse readership, including professionals, scientists, practitioners, researchers, and graduate students.
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Affaires et économie
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In diesem essential beantworten wir die Frage, inwieweit KI Chatbot Tools wie ChatGPT bei der Wahl der richtigen Geldanlage-Strategie profitalbel…
sein können. Wir gehen auf effektives Prompting ein und darauf, warum die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Ergebnissen essenziell ist. Ein weiteres Kapitel untersucht den automatisierten Vermögensaufbau des unbedarften Anlegers mithilfe des KI Robo Advisors und erläutert, was es dabei zu beachten gilt.Schließlich widmen wir uns der Möglichkeit, direkt in vielversprechende KI-Aktien oder -ETFs zu investieren und welche Risiken man miteinbeziehen sollte.
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Sciences et technologies
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Pasta is a conventional Italian product made from durum wheat semolina and characterized by high protein content, firm shape and…
texture. Extrusion technology allows incorporation of a variety of ingredients to pasta such as legumes, millets, pseudo cereals and others including mushrooms, tubers and pigmented components to enrich conventional pasta. It is a convenient, popular and versatile product, offering the food industry and researchers the opportunity to offer high nutritional quality by using alternative ingredients of nutritive excellence with a high concentration of bioactive components which induce several health benefits through antioxidative pathways. To deal with compromised functional properties of resultant pasta, different techno-functional interventions including use of hydrocolloids and modification of flours which are used to improve rheological and textural profile are necessary.Advances in Pasta Technology documents the history of pasta and its rise from niche to mainstream. The book is divided into 4 sections including an introduction that covers pasta history, global market statistics, traditional pasta making technology and processing along with quality characteristics. Another section is dedicated to nutritive valorization of pasta including modulation in the bio-functional characteristics as a function of ingredients including development of gluten free pasta, micronutrient fortification approach and use of protein, fibre and antioxidant rich flours as potential alternative ingredients. Further sections focus on technological approaches to enhance the performance of specialty pasta including additives, modification of flours and processing techniques and quality management, plant project profile and cost analysis details. This text highlights every aspect of pasta science, technology and market control.
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Essais et documents généraux
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This book chronicles the challenges, truths, and lessons of teaching and leading in a traditional high school today: the bureaucratic…
red tape, the fight for inclusivity, the mental health and safety concerns, and the urgent need for teacher support and wellness. From active shooter drills to digital distractions, from closing achievement gaps to preserving educator autonomy, the challenges are immense—but so are the opportunities for change. With an honest and insightful perspective, the authors share their compelling narrative account from their extensive experiences in the trenches as both a cautionary tale and a call to action—challenging educators, policymakers, and communities to rethink how schools can truly serve students and those who teach them.
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Essais et documents généraux, Déficiences
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Digitale Bildung für schwerbehinderte Menschen bietet neue Chancen zur Erweiterung beruflicher Qualifikationen und zur Stärkung der Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt. Doch…
wie lassen sich digitale Bildungsangebote in Einrichtungen der Behindertenhilfe erfolgreich umsetzen? Welche Herausforderungen gibt es, und welche Lösungen ermöglichen eine gleichberechtigte Nutzung?Dieses Buch stellt praxisnahe Konzepte, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen vor, die auf einem Modellprojekt basieren. Dabei werden die Perspektiven von Behindertenhilfe, Arbeitgebern und Betroffenen berücksichtigt. Zusätzlich erhalten Leser*innen Zugang zu einem ergänzenden Online-Kurs.
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Aventure (récits), Fantastique (récits)
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Beastheart is set in a fantastical world run by a complex hierarchy of Beasts called the new-Kind, which have magical…
or elemental powers. Humans have become the oppressed underclass, but rebellion is brewing as enemies struggle for power, and the truth about the origins of the Kind could tip the balance for ever ...Jonas, a young human, was blamed for the killing of his fellow villagers and thrown into a notorious prison. His only hope of release from jail is through using his tracking skills to find other criminals on the run, trading them in against his own sentence. But Jonas has a secret connection with a spirit creature, and in this dangerous world such secrets have consequences.Lana is a lizard-Kind, whose once aristocratic family has fallen into disgrace. Now she must use her special stone-working magic to support her loved ones - and when her talents are noticed by the king, Lana seizes a chance to restore her family's fortunes. But if the secret behind her mother's death comes to light, Lana and her sister could be in terrible danger.As Jonas's quest continues he uncovers shocking secrets about the history of his world and finds himself caught up in a complex web of shifting alliances. Can he discover what's really in his heart?
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Sciences et technologies
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Wang and Hirai draw on their extensive experience to introduce recent technological advances in soft robotics for food manipulation and…
discuss their practical applications in the food preparation industry. They also describe food modeling and categorization for the purpose of robotic handling.Food manipulation is common in restaurants, kitchens, and food factories, but it currently largely relies on humans because of the lack of effective robotic systems. This book therefore explains recent manipulation technology for food handling and restaurant/kitchen automation, which is essential for food manipulation. The book covers the theoretical background of soft robotic hands; their application to different handling purposes in the food industry; their use in kitchen and restaurant automation; and their use for food recognition, property measuring, and modeling. The authors also present case studies of the development of soft robotic hands to illustrate the information and provide practical information that will be instructional for readers. Readers will gain an in-depth appreciation of the technology and its practical application to industry, which will enable them to implement this in their own work.This book is an essential read for both food technology practitioners and graduate students who are interested in food manipulation and its related technologies. It gives readers the theoretical background knowledge and practical understanding to apply this cutting-edge technology in real-world settings.
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Loi et crime
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A little known and under-appreciated area in criminology is knowledge about the extent, pattern, and costs of crime committed against…
agriculture. Farm Crime: An International Perspective is the first book to summarize the existing literature from across the globe about agricultural victimization. It demonstrates the vulnerability of farms and farm families to both property and violent crime and how it threatens their livelihood and lifestyles.Written by a pioneer of rural criminology, this book provides both a descriptive synthesis of agricultural victimization and a discussion of various criminological theories applied to its study. Despite the great diversity of farms in different regions of the world and the significant differences between the kinds of crime committed against farms from continent to continent, Farm Crime summarizes common areas of vulnerability. It provides a significant agenda for the future study of agricultural victimization, both in terms of its importance to issues of food security and the safety of farm families around the world.This book is essential reading for green criminologists, rural criminologists, mainstream criminologists, and sociologists alike. It will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers focused on issues of rural development, agricultural policy, and food security.
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Loi et justice , Philosophie
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This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life,…
of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.Employing the term ‘herd immunity’ from vaccination science and global lockdown policy as a guiding theme, the book considers two central aspects of the pandemic. These are the function of herding and collecting as a definition of ontology after Alain Badiou, and the concept of immunity as a suspension of oppositional differences in the work of Roberto Esposito. It then considers how herd immunity not only disrupts the nomos but also suspends its significance as a guiding principle of state-sanctioned legal norms—and perhaps permanently. Providing critical readings of masking, social distancing, compliance, vulnerability, bubbles, immunity, breathing, anti-vaxxers, nudge theory, cocooning, lockdown, patient zero, and the many other terms that became commonplace between 2020 and 2022, the book traces a suspension of legal and social norms, a manipulation of our compliance using false science, and a reconfiguring of the social nomos, in light of the threats of the virus. In a highly original mix of contemporary and post-war continental philosophy, biopolitical theory, set theoretical mathematics, extensional logic, and the most up-to-date science in the area, it argues that lockdown was not some global, biopolitical power grab, but actually a weakening of power, of nomos.This book will appeal to scholars and others in a range of disciplinary areas with interests in the legacy of Covid; but especially those working in the areas of continental philosophy, contemporary legal theory, and biopolitics.
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Philosophie
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This book introduces a novel hylomorphic theory of material objects, according to which material objects are understood as comprised or…
composed of both matter and activity, where activity plays the role of form. This theory, “hyloenergeism,” captures the dynamic nature of many of the objects of our experience, such as living organisms, better than other leading varieties of contemporary hylomorphism.Hylomorphism is the theory according to which material objects are understood as comprised or composed of two fundamental parts, components, aspects, or principles: matter and form. Many contemporary hylomorphists endorse a version according to which the form of a material object is understood as a certain kind of complex relation or structure realized in its material parts. Others endorse a version according to which the form of a material object is understood as a certain kind of power or disposition continuously activated in the object or in its material parts. This book argues against structural and dispositional varieties of hylomorphism in favor of a third approach: hyloenergeism. Drawing on various aspects of traditional Aristotelian hylomorphism and other contemporary occurrence-based theories of material objects, it argues that hyloenergeism has the resources to successfully avoid or resolve several major concerns for other competing hylomorphic views.A Dynamic Theory of Hylomorphism will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in metaphysics, ancient philosophy, and medieval philosophy.