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The Pandemic of Argumentation
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Practical Conflicts between Law and Morality: An Argumentative Analysis of the Case of Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps -- Chapter 18. How to Deal with DeepDisagreements? The Role of Rhetoric in Crisis Communication: The Case of COVID-19 -- Chapter 19. …”
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Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…An Overview of Innovations in Online Learning -- 22. Coding as Essential Skills in the 21s Century -- 23. …”
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How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It A Practical Guide to Mastering Very Large Government Projects /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…-- References -- 3 Structure of the Investigation -- 3.1 Overview of the Approach Taken in This Study -- 3.2 Construction and Execution of the Survey -- 3.3 Construction of the Sample of Projects -- 3.4 Construction of the Case Studies -- Appendix: Full Questionnaire as It Was Administered -- Our Request -- Project Variables -- References -- 4 A Description of the 38 Matched Projects -- 4.1 Lagos-Ibadan Express Road -- 4.2 Lagos-Badagry Express Road -- 4.3 Third Mainland Bridge -- 4.4 Second Niger Bridge -- 4.5 Egbin Power Station -- 4.6 Calabar Power Station -- 4.7 Zungeru Hydropower Plant -- 4.8 Delta State (Oghareki) Power Plant -- 4.9 Shiroro Hydroelectric Power Station -- 4.10 Omoku Power Plant Station -- 4.11 Mambilla Hydroelectric Power -- 4.12 Ajaokuta Steel Project -- 4.13 Kanji Dam -- 4.14 Otukpo Dam -- 4.15 Nigeria Satellite 2 -- 4.16 Nigeria Satellite 1 -- 4.17 Airtel Nigeria -- 4.18 Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) -- 4.19 Godswill Akpabio International Stadium -- 4.20 (Samuel) Ogbemudia Stadium -- 4.21 Abuja International Airport -- 4.22 Lagos MMA2 Airport -- 4.23 Yenagoa International Cargo Airport -- 4.24 Jigawa Airport Project -- 4.25 Tin Can Island Port -- 4.26 Calabar Seaport -- 4.27 Victoria Garden City (VGC) Housing Estate -- 4.28 Festac Town Federal Housing Estate -- 4.29 1004 Housing Estate -- 4.30 Abuja Mass Federal Housing Project -- 4.31 Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library -- 4.32 Abuja National Library -- 4.33 Nigerian Youth Empowerment Scheme (N-Power) -- 4.34 Nigeria Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) -- 4.35 Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) -- 4.36 Cleaner Lagos Initiative (Visionscape) -- 4.37 University College Teaching Hospital (UCH) Ibadan -- 4.38 University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) -- References -- 5 Insights from the Analysis of the Questionnaires -- 5.1 Variable Distributions and Variable Capability to Detect Differences Across Projects -- 5.1.1 Each Respondent Type Adds Unique Perspectives and Information -- 5.1.2 The Variables Capture Robust Differences Between Abandoned and Completed Projects -- 5.2 Condensing Variables into Aggregated Success Factors -- 5.2.1 Approach -- 5.2.2 Identifying the Factors -- 5.3 Econometric Prediction of Project Completion -- 5.4 Econometric Prediction of Cost and Schedule Overruns for Completed Projects -- 5.4.1 Effect of Variables on Budget Overruns -- 5.4.2 Effect of Variables on Schedule Overruns -- 5.5 The Corrosive Effect of Corruption -- Appendix 1 Correlations Among Independent Variables Across All 114 Responses -- Appendix 2 Factor Analysis -- Appendix 3 Specification of the Logistical Regression -- Appendix 4 The Logistical Completion Probability Regression by Respondent Group -- Appendix 5 Robustness Analysis: Cost Overrun Regressions by Respondent Group -- Appendix 6 Robustness Analysis: Schedule Overrun Regressions by Respondent Group -- 6 Two Library Projects -- 6.1 The National Library of Nigeria in Abuja: An Abandoned Project -- 6.1.1 Project Initiation -- 6.1.2 Contract Signature and Execution -- 6.1.3 Conclusion -- 6.2 Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library: A Completed Project -- 6.2.1 Project Initiation -- 6.2.2 Project Execution and Outcome -- 6.2.3 The Difference Between the Two Projects: In the Words of Former President Obasanjo -- References -- 7 Two Bridge Projects -- 7.1 The Second Niger Bridge: A Stalled Project -- 7.1.1 Project Initiation -- 7.1.2 Contract Disputes and Recontracting -- 7.1.3 Continued Stalling -- 7.1.4 Diagnosis of the Reasons for Failure, in the Words of (Former) President Jonathan -- 7.1.5 Conclusion -- 7.2 The Third Mainland Bridge: A Completed Project -- 7.2.1 Introduction -- 7.2.2 Starting and Stalling -- 7.2.3 Restarting the Project Under President Babangida -- 7.2.4 Project Execution and Outcome -- 7.2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Two Power Plants -- 8.1 Egbin Power Station, Ikorodu Lagos State: A Completed Project -- 8.1.1 Initiation and Completion -- 8.1.2 Success Conditions and Challenges -- 8.1.3 Privatization and Trouble -- 8.2 The Calabar Odukpani Power Station: Completed but with Little Delivery -- 8.2.1 Project Initiation -- 8.2.2 Project Complications and Delays -- 8.2.3 Delivery of the Calabar Power Station in 2015 -- 8.2.4 What Has Been Delivered? …”
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Social Exclusion in Later Life Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Care services in Central and Eastern European countries and the Russian Federation: Exclusion and the roads of innovation -- Chapter 13. …”
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Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Is the First Language a Resource, an Obstacle or Irrelevant for Language Minority Students' Education? (Aileen Edele, Julian Seuring, Kristin Schotte, Cornelia Kristen and Petra Stanat) -- 17. …”
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External Voting The Patterns and Drivers of Central European Migrants' Homeland Electoral Participation /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “….-04-2007 -- East-West Migration in Europe: Political Context and Consequences -- The DIASPOlitic Project, Data Gathering, and Methods -- Data Gathering and Method: Quantitative Analysis of External Voting Results -- Data Gathering and Method: Qualitative Study of Migrant Voting -- References -- 3 External Voting Patterns: CEE Migrants in Western Europe -- The Political Contexts of the Countries of Origin -- Bulgaria -- Czechia -- Latvia -- Lithuania -- Poland -- Romania -- Data and Methods -- Results of the Analysis -- Turnout Patterns and Change Over Time -- Overall Disparity -- Ideological Disparity -- References -- 4 Migrant Perspectives on External Voting.…”
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries 18th International Conference, ICOST 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 24-26, 2020, Proceeding...
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…IoT and AI Solutions for E-health -- Alzheimer's Disease Early Detection Using a Low Cost Three-dimensional Densenet-121 Architecture -- Self-adaptative Early Warning Scoring System for Smart Hospital -- Machine Learning Based Rank Attack Detection for Smart Hospital Infrastructure -- Remote Health Monitoring Systems Based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Communication Systems -- Modeling and Specification of Bootstrapping and Registration Design Patterns for IoT Applications -- Biomedical and Health Informatics -- EEG-based Hypo-vigilance Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network -- Respiratory Activity Classification Based on Ballistocardiogram Analysis -- A Convolutional Neural Network for Lentigo Diagnosis -- Deep Learning-based Approach for Atrial Fibrillation Detection -- Unsupervised Method Based on Superpixel Segmentation for Corpus Callosum Parcellation in MRI Scans -- Behavior and Activity Monitoring -- Using Learning Techniques to Observe Elderly's Behavior Changes Over Time -- Personalized and Contextualized Persuasion System for Older Adults' Physical Activity Promoting -- Baseline Modelling and Composite Representation of Unobtrusively (IoT) Sensed Behaviour Changes Related to Urban Physical Well-being -- Wellbeing Technology -- Automatic Daily Activity Schedule Planning for Simulating Smart House with Elderly People Living Alone -- A Novel On-wrist Fall Detection System Using Supervised Dictionary Learning Technique -- Combined Machine Learning and Semantic Modelling for Situation Awareness and Healthcare Decision Support -- Improving Access and Mental Health for Youth Through Virtual Models of Care -- Short Contributions: IoT and AI Solutions for E-health -- Study of Middleware for Internet of Healthcare Things and Their Applications -- Uncertainty in IoT for Smart Healthcare: Challenges, and Opportunities -- Secure E-health Platform -- Hybrid and Secure E-health Data Sharing Architecture in Multi-Clouds Environment -- Blockchain for Internet of Medical Things: A technical Review -- Application of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Study -- Trust Execution Environment and Multi-party Computation for Blockchain E-health Systems -- A Fuzzy-ontology Based Diabetes Monitoring System Using Internet of Things -- Short Contributions: Biomedical and Health Informatics -- A Hybrid Approach for Heart Disease Diagnosis and Prediction Using Machine Learning Techniques -- Context-aware Healthcare Adaptation Model for COPD Diseases -- Study of Healthcare Professionals' Interaction in the Patient Records with Annotations -- Multirate ECG Processing and Machine Learning Based Efficient Arrhythmia Diagnosis -- Comparative Study of Relevant Methods for MRI/X Brain Image Registration -- Machine Learning Classification Models with SPD/ED Dataset: Comparative Study of Abstract Versus Full Article Approach -- Evaluation of Stationary Wavelet Transforms in Reconstruction of Pure High Frequency Oscillations (HFOs) -- Ensuring theCorrectness and Well Modeling of Intelligent Healthcare Management Systems -- Short Contributions: Wellbeing Technology -- An Embedded ANN Raspberry PI for Inertial Sensor Based Human Activity Recognition -- Human Activities Recognition in Android Smartphone using WSVM-HMM Classifier -- Mobile Assistive Application for Blind People in Indoor Navigation -- Older People's Needs and Opportunities for Assistive Technologies -- Towards a Formal Context-Aware Workflow Model for Ambient Environment -- The PULSE Project: A Case of Use of Big Data Uses Toward a Cohomprensive Health Vision of City Well Being -- ForeSight - An AI-driven Smart Living Platform, Approach to Add Access Control to openHAB.…”
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A Roadmap for Plant Genome Editing
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Section 0- Editorial -- Section 1- Plant breeding and Technological Advances -- Chapter 1 Genome editing of gene families for crop improvement -- Chapter 2 Base editing and Prime editing -- Chapter 3 Novel delivery methods for CRISPR-based plant genome editing + Figure -- Chapter 4 Balancing trait improvement with tradeoff side-effects using genome editing technology -- Chapter 5 CRISPR/Cas mutation screening: from mutant allele detection to prediction of protein coding potential -- Chapter 6 Methods and techniques to select efficient and specific guides for CRISPR-mediated genome editing in plants -- Section 2- Applications of Genome Editing -- Chapter 7 Genome editing of a macroalgae with possible global impacts -- Chapter 8 A Short Review of Advances in Plant-Based Antigen Production Strategies and the Production of Viral Vaccine Antigens Derived from CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Edited Nicotiana benthamiana Plants for Enhanced Vaccine Efficacy -- Chapter 9 Precise gene editing of cereals using CRISPR/Cas technology -- Chapter 10 Implementing genome editing in barley breeding -- Chapter 11 Current status and future prospective of genome editing application in maize -- Chapter 12 Using gene editing strategies for wheat improvement -- Chapter 13 Gene Editing of Wheat to Reduce Coeliac Disease Epitopes in Gluten -- Chapter 14 Genome Editing in Horticultural Plants: Present Applications and Future Perspective -- Chapter 15 Application of CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing techniques in leguminous crops -- Chapter 16 Genetic improvement in leguminous crops through genome editing -- Chapter 17 Soybean improvement and the role of gene editing -- Chapter 18 Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) …”
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Food Studies Matter, Meaning, Movement
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Sasha Gora -- Creative: Tasting 'Authenticity,' Annika Walsh and fin-xuan lee -- Case: Foood in Samoa, Garrett Hillyer -- Perspective: Place-Based Designations, Eden Kinkaid -- Creative: Food Tours, Natalie Doonan -- Perspective: Food Meanings, Marylynn Steckley -- Perspective: Gastronomy, Stan Blackley and Donald Reid -- Case: Food ni Kyrgyzstan, Christian Kelly Scott and Guangqing Chi -- Creative: Street Food Vendors, Vincent Andrisani -- Case: School Lunchtimes, Yukari Seko and Lina Rahouma -- Creative: Collaborative Eating Performances, Annika Walsh -- Perspective: Food Relationships, Sara Rotz -- Creative: Poems for Pollniatoors, Andrea Elena Noriega -- Case: Food and Folklore, Lucy Long -- Perspective: Household Foodwork, Mary Anne Martin and Michael Classens -- Creative: Making Mead, Joshua Steckley -- Perspective: Nutrition Paradigms, Alissa Overend -- Perspective: Eating Healthy, Jennifer Brady -- Activity: Classifying Food, Erin Sperling and Sara Scharf -- Creative: The Foodish Gaze, Annika Walsh -- Perspective: Food Allergies, Janis Goldiie -- Creative: Form and Matter, Annika Walsh -- Perspective: Salt, Liam Cole Young -- Case: Artisan Cheese, Amy Trubek -- Perspective: Disordered Eating, Danyael Lutgens and Andrew Ryder -- Case: Superfood Advertising, Anne F. …”
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Digital Kenya An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCING DIGITAL KENYA -- Chapter 1 The Paradigm Shift: Disruption, Creativity and Innovation in Kenya (Bitange Ndemo) -- Conversation 1 with Jimmy Gitonga: The Past, Present & Future of Digital Nyika: How to Fix an Aircraft in Mid-Air -- PART I: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING AHEAD -- Chapter 2 The Internet Journey for Kenya: The Interplay of Disruptive Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Fueling Rapid Growth Kenya (Muriuki Mureithi) -- Conversation 2 with Eric Hersman of BRCK: Exploring the Ideal Role of Government, NGOs, Angel Investors, and Universities for Technology Entrepreneurs NGOs -- Chapter 3 The KINGS of Africa's Digital Economy (Eric Osiakwan) -- Conversation 3 with Anne Githuku- Shongwe of Afroes: Changing the Game: Building Mindsets of Hope and Possibilities in Africa's future leaders- One Game at a Time -- PART II UNCOVERING UNIQUE MARKET OPPORTUNITIES -- Chapter 4 Addressing the Voids: How Digital Start-ups in Kenya Create Market Infrastructure (Marissa Drouillard) -- Conversation 4 with Timbo Drayson of OkHi: Finding the Right Problem to Solve -- Chapter 5 Reimagine What You already Know: Towards New Solutions to Longstanding Problems (Jay Larson & Michael Munger) -- Conversation 5 with Elizabeth Rossiello of BitPesa: To Keep Disrupting, You Have to Listen Closely to What the Client Wants -- Chapter 6 iEntrepreneurship: Changing Lives through Technology (Amolo Ng'weno and Carmen Wamukoya) -- Conversation 6 with Su Kahumbu of Green Dreams Tech: How Technology Makes Farming Sexy Again -- Chapter 7 From Cyber to Smartphone: Kenya's Social Media's Lens Zooms In on the Country and Out to the World (Mark Kaigwa) -- Conversation 7 with Munyutu Waigi of Umati Capital: Toward Digitizing Information for the Benefit of the Many Rather Than the Few -- PART III THE INNER LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN KENYA -- Chapter 8 Building ICT Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Resource-Scarce Contexts: Learnings from Kenya's "Silicon Savannah" (Johannes U. …”
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Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Strategies To Promote Deep Renovation In Existing Buildings (Cristina Jiménez-Pulido, Ana Jiménez-Rivero And Justo García-Navarro) -- Chapter 22. …”
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The Interconnected Arctic - UArctic Congress 2016
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Chapter 25 Maritime operations and emergency preparedness in the Arctic -competence standards for search and rescue operations contingencies in polar waters -- Chapter 26 Risk reduction as a result of implementation of the functional based IMO Polar Code in the Arctic cruise industry -- Chapter 27 Safety of industrial development and transportation routes in the Arctic (SITRA) -collaboration project for research and education of future High North experts -- Chapter 28 Safe Snow and Ice Construction to Arctic Conditions -- Chapter 29 The components of psychological safety of oil and gas shift workers in the Arctic -- Part VI Circumpolar, inclusive and reciprocal Arctic. …”
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Public Health in Pharmacy Practice A Casebook
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Deciphering immunization codes: making evidence-based recommendations -- 14. …”
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The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…The Power of Procedural Justice in the Planning of Energy Projects (Nerissa Edem Lawrencia Anku) -- Chapter 11. International Investor-State Disputes Arbitration through Energy Justice Lenses: opening the case for 'Greening through Free Trade' narratives (Emmanuelle Santoire) -- Chapter 12. …”
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