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Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Theory -- Nadine Elzein: Free Will and Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism -- Stephen Pratten: Causality, Agency and Change -- Jason Blakely: How Economics Becomes Ideology: The Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory -- William Child: Economics, Agency, and Causal Explanation -- Part II Praxis -- Richard Conrad and Peter Hunter: Why Aquinas Would Agree That Human Economic Behaviour Is Largely Predictable -- Paul Clough: Agency, Time and Morality: An Argument from Social and Economic Anthropology -- Scott Meikle: The Switch from Agency to Causation in Marx -- Margaret S. …”
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Causality in Policy Studies a Pluralist Toolbox /

Table of Contents: “…Causal Inference and Policy Evaluation from Case Studies using Bayesian Process Tracing -- 9. …”
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Energy and Sustainable Futures: Proceedings of the 3rd ICESF, 2022

Table of Contents: “…Investigating Energy Cost Impact on Private Residential Buildings in the West Midlands Region of the UK -- Towards an Effective Artificial Intelligence Systems for Condition Monitoring of Off-Shore Wind Turbines: The Application of Sensor Fusion -- CFD Based Aerodynamics conjugate Heat Transfer and Airgap Fluid Flow Thermal Analysis to a Wheel Hub Motor for Electric Scooters -- Learning from the past fora sustainable future: Environmental monitoring and 3D modeling to assess the thermal performance of heritage buildings -- Oil and gas supply chain: Analysing stakeholder sustainability risk perception -- using machine learning to predict synthetic fuel spray penetration from limited experimental data without computational flluid dynamics.…”
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World History Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 by Berger, Eugene, Israel, George L., Miller, Charolette

Table of Contents: “…Chapter One: Prehistory -- Chapter Two: Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations -- Chapter Three: Ancient and Early Medieval India -- Chapter Four: China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty -- Chapter Five: The Greek World from the Bronze Age to the Roman Conquest -- Chapter Six: The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 CE -- Chapter Seven: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 5 0 0 - 10 0 0 CE -- Chapter Eight: Islam to the Mamluks -- Chapter Nine: African History to 1500 -- Chapter Ten: The Americas -- Chapter Eleven: Central Asia -- Chapter Twelve: Western Europe and Byzantium circa1000 - 1500 CE…”
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Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

Table of Contents: “…Extraction -- Iv. Dispatches from a climate change frontline country—Namibia, Southern Africa -- V. …”
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Austenitic TRIP/TWIP Steels and Steel-Zirconia Composites Design of Tough, Transformation-Strengthened Composites and Structures /

Table of Contents: “…From the contents: Powder Metallurgy -- Steel Infiltration -- Steel Technology -- Electron Beam Welding -- Materials Testing -- Fracture Mechanics -- Microanalysis -- Thermodynamic Modelling -- Fluid Dynamics -- Continuum Mechanics -- Micromechanical Materials Modelling.…”
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Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development by Thomas, Vinod, Chindarkar, Namrata

Table of Contents: “…The Spectrum of Impact Evaluations -- 3. The Picture from Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 4. Objectives-Based Evaluation for Accountability and Learning -- 5. …”
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Bio-Inspired Sensory Systems by Brooks, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 General Concepts from Engineering and Biology -- Chapter 3 Photo-sensory Systems -- Chapter 4 Mechano-sensory Systems -- Chapter 5 Chemo-sensory Systems…”
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EU Citizenship Beyond Urban Centres Perceptions and Practices of Young People in East Central European Peripheral Areas /

Table of Contents: “…Approaching EU Citizenship from the Angle of Young People in the East Central European Double Periphery. …”
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Marginality Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology /

Table of Contents: “…1 Marginality-An Overview and Implications for Policy -- Part 1 Concepts and Theory -- 2 Marginality-A Framework for Analyzing Causal Complexities of Poverty -- 3 Exclusion and Initiatives to "Include": Revisiting Basic Economics to Guide Development Practice -- 4 Marginality from a Socio-ecological Perspective -- Part 2 Dimensions and Prevalence of Marginality -- 5 Mapping Marginality Hotspots -- 6 The Poorest: Who and Where They Are -- 7 Targeting the Poorest and Most Vulnerable: Examples from Bangladesh -- 8 Correlates of Extreme Poverty in Rural Ethiopia -- 9 Examining the Circle of Attachment, Trauma, Shame, and Marginalization: the Unheard Voices of Young Kutchi Girls -- Part 3 Environmental Drivers of Marginality -- 10 Poverty, Agriculture and the Environment: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 11 The Marginal Poor and their Dependence on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa -- 12 Land Degradation, Poverty, and Marginality -- Part 4     Experiencing Marginality in Africa and Asia -- 13 Tackling Social Exclusion and Marginality for Poverty Reduction: Indian Experiences -- 14 Consumption Behavior of the Poorest and Policy Implications in Indonesia -- 15 Addressing Extreme Poverty and Marginality: Experiences in Rural China -- 16 Experiences in Targeting the Poorest: a Case Study from Bangladesh -- 17 Rural Poverty and Marginalization in Ethiopia: a Review of Development Interventions -- Part 5 Responses to Marginality at Different Levels: State, Business, and Community -- 18 Macro, Fiscal, and Decentralization Options to Address Marginality and Reach the Extremely Poor -- 19 Social Protection, Marginality, and Extreme Poverty: Just Give Money to the Poor -- 20 Innovative Business Approaches for the Reduction of Extreme Poverty and Marginality -- 21 Business Initiatives that Overcome Rural Poverty and Marginality Through Creating Shared Value -- 22 The Marginalized and Poorest in Different Communities and Settings of Ethiopia.…”
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The Potato Crop Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Global Food Security, Contributions from Sustainable Potato Agri-Food Systems -- The Potato and its Contribution to the Human Diet -- Enhancing Value Chains through Collective Actions: Lessons From the Andes, Africa and Asia -- Ex situ Conservation of Potato [Solanum Section Petota (Solanaceae)] Genetic Resources in Genebanks -- The Genes and Genomes of the Potato -- Potato Breeding -- Genetics and Cytogenetics of Potato -- Insect Pests Affecting Potatoes in Tropical, Subtropical and Temperate Regions -- Fungal, Oomycete and Plasmodiophorid Diseases of Potato -- Bacterial Diseases of Potato -- Viral Diseases in Potato -- Potato Seed Systems -- Participatory Research (PR) at CIP with Potato Farming Systems in the Andes: Evolution and Prospects -- Gender Topics on Potato Research and Development -- Index. .…”
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Multiple-Aspect Analysis of Semantic Trajectories First International Workshop, MASTER 2019, Held in Conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16, 2019, Proceed...

Table of Contents: “…Learning from our Movements - The Mobility Data Analytics Era -- Uncovering hidden concepts from AIS data: A network abstraction of maritime traffic for anomaly detection -- Nowcasting Unemployment Rates with Smartphone GPS data -- Online long-term trajectory prediction based on mined route patterns -- EvolvingClusters: Online Discovery of Group Patterns in Enriched Maritime Data -- Prospective Data Model and Distributed Query Processing for Mobile Sensing Data Streams -- Predicting Fishing Effort and Catch Using Semantic Trajectories and Machine Learning -- A Neighborhood-augmented LSTM Model for Taxi-Passenger Demand Prediction -- Multi-Channel Convolutional Neural Networks for Handling Multi-Dimensional Semantic Trajectories and Predicting Future Semantic Locations.…”
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International Symposium on Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Cryptography Proceedings of MQC 2019 /

Table of Contents: “…-- Emerging Ultrastrong Coupling between Light and Matter Observed in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics -- Quantum Random Numbers Generated by a Cloud Superconducting Quantum Computer -- Quantum Factoring Algorithm: Resource Estimation and Survey of Experiments -- A Review of Secret Key Distribution Based on Bounded Observability -- Towards Constructing Fully Homomorphic Encryption without Ciphertext Noise from Group Theory -- Number Theoretic Study in Quantum Interactions -- From the Bloch Sphere to Phase Space Representations with the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding -- A Data Concealing Technique with Random Noise Disturbance and A Restoring Technique for the Concealed Data by Stochastic Process Estimation.…”
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Political Ideologies and Worldviews An Introduction by Vézina, Valérie

Table of Contents: “…Dis(placement) and Indigenous Worldview : What I learned from Coyote -- III. Liberalism: From the "free men" to the "free market" -- IV. …”
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Surface and Subtext Literature, Research, Writing by Francis, Jr., James, Carly-Miles, Claire, Clough, Kimberly, Cooper, R. Paul, Hagstrom-Schmidt, Nicole, Rozier, Travis, Thielman, Frances, Todd, Dorothy, LeMire, Sarah, Anders, Kathy Christie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Poetry -- Short Story -- Novella -- Novel -- Drama -- Film -- Creative Nonfiction -- Writing a Literary Essay: Moving from Surface to Subtext -- Using Sample Documents Effectively -- Glossary -- Index of Authors and Their Works…”
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Inquiry-Based Learning - Undergraduate Research The German Multidisciplinary Experience /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Principles -- Concepts and Cases: Science Studies on IBL -- Focus on Learning -- Processes and Capabilities of Self-Learning -- Research-Oriented Learning and Teaching from a Didactic View -- The Turn "From Teaching to Learning": Towards a Student-Centered Learning Culture -- Focus on Research -- Development of Competences through IBL -- Research-Oriented Study Programs as Enculturation to Science -- Reflection -- Focus on Curricula -- Examinations and IBL -- The Peer-to Peer Principle of IBL -- Inter- and Transdisciplinarity -- Part 2: Disciplines -- I) Professionalizing Disciplines -- Teachers' Education and IBL -- Social Work and IBL -- Information Science and IBL -- II) Life Sciences -- Medicine and IBL -- (Natural) Life Sciences and IBL -- Health Sciences and IBL -- III) STEM -- Mathematics and IBL -- (Natural) Sciences and IBL -- Engineering and IBL -- IV) Arts and Design -- The Arts and IBL -- Design and IBL -- Architecture and IBL -- Specific Disciplines -- Business Administration and IBL -- Cultural Studies and IBL -- Geography and IBL -- Historical Studies and IBL -- Law and IBL -- Philosophy and IBL -- Sports and IBL -- Sustainability Studies and IBL -- Theology and IBL -- Part 3: Perspectives -- IBL as an Academic Profile: Bremen University -- IBL from the Perspective of Applied Universities -- IBL and Digital Media -- IBL and Diversity -- Perspectives for Economy and Society.…”
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The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place /

Table of Contents: “…How Gallivare coped with the 1868 Deprivation and Katherine conceded to the 1998 Cyclone Les -- Indigenous cultural and demographic assets for managing disasters -- Part 4 - Planning for Future -- Planning for population loss -- Lifeline networks: Disruption from disasters or disasters from disruption? OR Reliance, vulnerability and disruption -- Exploring indigenous knowledge for assessing volcanic hazards and improving emergency communication -- Population urbanisation and disaster risks -- Conclusion.…”
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The Legacy of Felix Klein

Table of Contents: “…Elementary mathematics from a higher standpoint-conception, realization, and impact on teacher education -- Klein's conception of ''Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint' -- Precision mathematics and approximation mathematics: the conceptual and educational role of their comparison -- Examples of Klein's practice elementary mathematics from a higher standpoint: volume I -- A double discontinuity and a triple approach: felix klein's perspective on mathematics teacher education.…”
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White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin

Table of Contents: “…Farmer Organizations in Ubon Ratchathani Province -- 5. From Subsistence to Commercial Rice Farming in Laos -- 6. …”
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Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Art

Table of Contents: “…Archaeological reconstructions -- 4. A precious artifact from Sumer, the Warka Vase -- 5. Standing Male Worshipper (Tell Asmar) -- 6. …”
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