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The Onlife Manifesto Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…The public sphere in a computational era -- The Public(s) Onlife - A Call for Legal Protection by Design; Mireille Hildebrandt -- Rethinking the Human Condition in a Hyperconnected Era: Why Freedom is not about Sovereignty but about Beginnings; Nicole Dewandre -- Designing the public sphere: information technologies and the politics of mediation; Peter-Paul Verbeek -- Towards an Online Bill of Rights; Sarah Oates -- On Tolerance and Fictitious Publics; May Thorseth -- The Onlife Initiative - Conclusion.…”
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Female Genital Cutting in the Gamo Cultural Landscape, South Western Ethiopia (Getaneh Mehari) -- Ch.5 Female Circumcision in Transformation: Medicalization and Ritual Changes among Gusii People in Western Kenya (Miyachi, Kaori) -- Ch.6 A Grassroots Movement to Eradicate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and the Local's Reaction: A Case Study of the Maasai, Kenya (Hayashi, Manami) -- Ch.7 An Ethnography of Diversity and Flexibility around Female Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Case of a Local Community Response to the Abolition Movement of Kenya (Nakamura, Kyoko) -- Ch.8 Genealogy of the Movement to Abolish FGC in Sudan: Focusing on the Role of Religion (Abdin, Mohamed) -- Ch.9 Female Genital Cutting in Asia: A case of Malaysia (Rashid, Abdul) -- Ch.10 Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia from the Viewpoint of the Female Body and Sexuality (Iguchi, Yufu) -- Ch.11 The Role of Men in the Abandonment of FGM/C (Varol, Nesrin) -- Ch.12 Autonomy and Bodily Integrity and Male Circumcision (Higashi, Yuko) -- Index.…”
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3943
Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Kallio & Heidi Westerlund -- Intercultural Game in Music Teacher Education: Exploring El Sistema in Sweden; Eva Sæther -- Expanding Learning Frames in Music Teacher Education: Student Placement in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon; Brit Ågot Brøske -- The Reinvented Music Teacher-Researcher in the Making: Conducting Educational Development Through Intercultural Collaboration; Vilma Timonen, Anna Houmann, and Eva Sæther -- Bridging Musical Worlds: Musical Collaboration Between Student Musician-Educators and South Sudanese Australian Youth; Kathryn Marsh, CatherineIngram and Samantha Dieckmann -- To Honor and Inform: Addressing Cultural Humility in Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Canada; Lori-Anne Dolloff -- Structure and Fragmentation: The Current Tensions and Possible Transformation of Intercultural Music Teacher Education in South Africa; Albi Odendaal -- Assessing Intercultural Competence in Teacher Education: A Missing Link; Sapna Thapa -- Narrating Change, Voicing Values, and Co-Constructing Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education; Laura Miettinen, Heidi Westerlund, and Claudia Gluschankof -- Engaging Practitioners as Inquirers: Co-Constructing Visions for Music Teacher Education in Nepal; Danielle Shannon Treacy -- Epilogue: Music Teacher Education Engaging with the Politics of Diversity; Heidi Westerlund and Sidsel Karlsen.…”
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Human and Organisational Factors Practices and Strategies for a Changing World /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The Languages of Safety, by Hervé Laroche -- 13. The Dual face of HOF in High-Risk Organizations, by Corinne Bieder -- 14. …”
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Climate Risk in Africa Adaptation and Resilience /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Todd, Seshagiri Rao Kolusu, Julien J. Harou, Japhet J. Kashaigili, Declan Conway -- Chapter 7: Integrating climate risks into strategic urban planning in Lusaka, Zambia; Anna Taylor, Gilbert Siame, Brenda Mwalukanga -- Chapter 8: Supporting climate-resilient planning at national and district level: A pathway to multi-stakeholder decision-making in Uganda; Rosalind J. …”
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Philosophy of Astrophysics Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Simulation-Induced Selection Effects in Astronomy (Sarah C. Gallagher and Christopher Smeenk) -- Part III: Black Holes. 13. …”
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Asylum Determination in Europe Ethnographic Perspectives /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Nick Gill and Anthony Good -- Chapter 2. Legal Overview; Sarah Craig and Karin Zwaan -- PART I - ACTORS -- Chapter 3. …”
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Design Discourse Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Ballentine -- Futures -- The Third Way: PTW and the Liberal Arts in the New Knowledge Society, Anthony Di Renzo -- The Write Brain: Professional Writing in the Post-Knowledge Economy, Alex Reid -- Post-Scripts by Veteran Program Designers -- A Techné for Citizens: Service-Learning, Conversation, and Community, James Dubinsky -- Models of Professional Writing / Technical Writing Administration: Reflections of a Serial Administrator at Syracuse University, Carol Lipson…”
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Processes Writing Across Academic Careers
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…A Descriptive Report of Performance-Related Characteristics of Boston Marathon Qualifiers -- Writing in Science: Creating a Lab Write-Up -- It’s a Marsh Mallow World in the Summer -- Discourse Analysis: The Impact of the Unspoken Word -- Messages from Writers on Writing and Education -- Former Beat Writer Reflects -- The Process of Writing as a Spontaneous Act of Storytelling: From the Classroom to a Published Essay -- “The Generation and Uses of Chaos”: Rhetorical Invention as the Taming of a Wild Garden -- Collaborative Composing: Demystifying the Literature Review and the Writing Process, Together -- On Writing Philosophy -- Learning Outcomes -- Staying Engaged while Staying Home -- The Art of Editorial Conversation -- A Pedagogical Template for Preparing Undergraduate Student Scientific Laboratory Reports and First Submissions to Academic Journals -- Messages from Scholars about History and Culture -- The Messengers of War -- The Beauty of Spirited Writing -- The Art of Being Green: Mimesis and the Environment in Book II of The Faerie Queene -- Una Vida Aislada: The Theme of Isolation in The House on Mango Street -- The Advantages of Quick Writing Bursts -- Another Possible Source of Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne -- A Brief Survey of US Accounting -- Writing in Criminal Justice: The Process…”
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Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Remote Detection of Invasive Alien Species -- Chapter13. A Range of Earth Observation Techniques for Assessing Plant Diversity -- Chapter14. …”
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Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Sidestepping the stalemate: The strategies of public health actors for circulating evidence into the policy process Carole Clavier, France Gagnon and Blake Poland -- Chapter 11. …”
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Lived Institutions as History of Experience
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…"It Went All the Way Down to the Shoes": Experiences of Institutionalization in the Danish Special Care System for the Intellectually Disabled, 1933-1980; Klaus Petersen and Sarah Smed -- Part IV Dealing with Institutional Experiences -- 11. …”
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident The First Three Years /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…1 An Overview of Our Research -- 2 Monitoring Inspection for Radioactive Substances in Agricultural, Livestock, Forest, and Fishery Products in Fukushima Prefecture -- 3 Rice Inspections in Fukushima Prefecture -- 4 Cesium accumulation in paddy field rice grown in Fukushima from 2011 to 2013: cultivars and fertilization -- 5 Physiological verification of the effect of potassium supply on the reduction of radiocesium content in rice grain -- 6 Consecutive Field Trials of Rice Cultivation in Partially Decontaminated Paddy Fields to Reduce Radiocesium Absorption in the Iitate Village in Fukushima Prefecture -- 7 Effects of "clean feeding" management on livestock products contaminated with radioactive cesium due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident -- 8 Adverse effects of radiocesium on the promotion of sustainable circular agriculture including livestock due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident -- 9 Wild boars in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident: Distribution of radiocesium -- 10 Contamination of Wild Animals: Microhabitat Heterogeneity and Ecological Factors of Radioactive Cesium Exposure in Fukushima -- 11 Translocation of radiocesium in fruit trees -- 12 The effects of radioactive contamination on the forestry industry and commercial mushroom-log production in Fukushima, Japan -- 13 Radiocesium in timber of Japanese cedar, and Japanese red pine, in the forests of Minamisoma, Fukushima -- 14 Ecosystem monitoring of radiocesium redistribution dynamics in a forested catchment in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident in March 2011 -- 15 Reduction of air radiation dose by ponding paddy fields -- 16 Collaboration Structure for the Resurrection of Iitate Village, Fukushima: A Case Study of a Nonprofitable Organization -- 17 Impacts of the nuclear power plant accident and the start of trial operations in Fukushima fisheries -- 18 Consumer evaluation of foods from the disaster affected area: Change in 3 years -- 19 Imaging Techniques for Radiocesium in Soil and Plants.…”
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The Seine River Basin
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Trajectories of the Seine River Basin -- The evolution of the Seine basin water bodies through historical maps -- Pluri-annual water budget on the Seine basin: past, current and future trends -- The Seine watershed water-agro-food system: long-term trajectories of C, N, P metabolism -- Past and future trajectories of human excreta management systems - the case of Paris 19th-21st centuries -- How agricultural practices should be integrated to understand and simulate long-term pesticide contamination in the Seine River basin? …”
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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Still Joy: A Call for Wonder(ing) in Science Education as Anti-Racist Vibrant Life-Living -- 10. The Salt of the Earth (Inspired by Cherokee Creation Story) -- 11. …”
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Calculus-Based Physics I
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…1 Mathematical Prelude -- 2 Conservation of Mechanical Energy I: Kinetic Energy & Gravitational Potential Energy -- 3 Conservation of Mechanical Energy II: Springs, Rotational Kinetic Energy -- 4 Conservation of Momentum -- 5 Conservation of Angular Momentum -- 6 One-Dimensional Motion (Motion Along a Line): Definitions and Mathematics -- 7 One-Dimensional Motion: The Constant Acceleration Equations -- 8 One-Dimensional Motion: Collision Type II -- 9 One-Dimensional Motion Graphs -- 10 Constant Acceleration Problems in Two Dimensions -- 11 Relative Velocity -- 12 Gravitational Force Near the Surface of the Earth, First Brush with Newton's 2nd Law -- 13 Freefall, a.k.a. …”
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Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Traditional landscape appropriation of Afro-descendants and collective titling in the Colombian Pacific region: lessons for a transformative change -- Chapter 11. …”
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Diseases of the Chest, Breast, Heart and Vessels 2019-2022 Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Approach to Imaging of Mediastinal Conditions in the Adult (Bhalla, S., Marom, E.) -- Chapter 4. Plain Film and HRCT Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease (Desai, S., Galvin, J., Prosch, H.) -- Chapter 5. …”
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Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People Key Factors for the Success and Continuity of Schooling Levels /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Inclusion or exclusion: UK education policy and Roma pupils (Carol Rogers) -- Chapter 2. Ciganos, families and social policies in Portugal: what has changed in the Ciganos attitude towards school? …”
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Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value -- Part I: Technologies and Methods -- Trade-Offs and Challenges of Serverless Data Analytics -- Big Data and AI Pipeline Framework: Technology Analysis from a Benchmarking Perspective -- An Elastic Software Architecture for Extreme-Scale Big Data Analytics -- Privacy-Preserving Technologies for Trusted Data Spaces -- Leveraging Data-Driven Infrastructure Management to Facilitate AIOps for Big Data Applications and Operations -- Leveraging High-Performance Computing and Cloud Computing with Unified Big-DataWorkflows: The LEXIS Project -- Part II: Processes and Applications -- The DeepHealth Toolkit: A Key European Free and Open-Source Software for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Ready to Exploit Heterogeneous HPC and Cloud Architectures -- Applying AI to Manage Acute and Chronic Clinical Condition -- 3D Human Big Data Exchange Between the Healthcare and Garment Sectors -- Using a Legal Knowledge Graph for Multilingual Compliance Services in Labor Law, Contract Management, and Geothermal Energy -- Big Data Analytics in the Banking Sector: Guidelines and Lessons Learned from the CaixaBank Case -- Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics for the Maintenance of Industrial Machinery with Hybrid and Cognitive Digital Twins -- Big Data Analytics in the Manufacturing Sector: Guidelines and Lessons Learned Through the Centro Ricerche FIAT (CRF) Case -- Next-Generation Big Data-Driven Factory 4.0 Operations and Optimization: The Boost 4.0 Experience -- Big Data-Driven Industry 4.0 Service Engineering Large-Scale Trials: The Boost 4.0 Experience -- Model-Based Engineering and Semantic Interoperability for Trusted Digital Twins Big Data Connection Across the Product Lifecycle -- A Data SciencePipeline for Big Linked Earth Observation Data -- Towards Cognitive Ports of the Futures -- Distributed Big Data Analytics in a Smart City -- Processing Big Data in Motion: Core Components and System Architectures with Applications to the Maritime Domain -- Knowledge Modeling and Incident Analysis for Special Cargo.…”
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