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From Colonialism to International Aid External Actors and Social Protection in the Global South /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Ulriksen -- 11 External Donors and Social Protection in Africa: A Case Study of Zimbabwe, Stephen Devereux and Samuel Kapingidza -- Part IV Critical Reflections and Conclusion -- 12 Transnational Actors and the Diffusion of Social Policies: An Ideational Approach, Privilege Haang'andu and Daniel Béland -- 13 Transnational Actors and Institutionalization of Social Protection in the Global South, Armando Barrientos -- 14 Critical Assessment and Outlook, Carina Schmitt, Bastian Becker, Judith M. Ebeling, and Amanda Shriwise.…”
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When Music Takes Over in Film
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Redemption Songs: Musical Moments in Flora Gomes's Nha Fala (2002) and Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen Geï (2001) -- 15. "No hay nada que celebrar": Migration, Violence, and Musical Moments in Luis Estrada's El Infierno (2010).…”
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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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Canadian History Post-Confederation
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Confederation and the Peoples of Canada -- Chapter 2: Confederation in Conflict -- Chapter 3: Urban, Industrial, and Divided: Socio-Economic Change, 1867-1920 -- Chapter 4: Politics and Conflict in Victorian and Edwardian Canada -- Chapter 5: Immigration and the Immigrant Experience -- Chapter 6: The War Years, 1914-45 -- Chapter 7: Reform Movements from the 1870s to the 1980s -- Chapter 8: The Economy since 1920 -- Chapter 9: Cold War Canada, 1945-1991 -- Chapter 10: This is the Modern World -- Chapter 11: First Nations from Indian Act to Idle No More -- Chapter 12: Canada at the End of History…”
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Human and Organisational Factors Practices and Strategies for a Changing World /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Considering Human and Organizational Factors in Risk Industries:, by Christian Neveu, Valérie Lagrange, Philipe Noël, and Nicolas Herchin -- 5. The Key Drivers to Setting Up a Valuable and Sustainable HOF Approach in a High-Risk Company such as Airbus, by Florence Reuzeau -- 6. …”
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Transformation Literacy Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Introduction and conceptual framing - transformation literacy as a future-making skill -- Part 1: Mindsets in service of wellbeing on a healthy planet -- Setting the scene: How to connect with a world as an interconnected whole -- The same tone, but a new sound - understanding the story of the soul as pathway to regenerative civilizations -- Possible futures -- Transformative literacy as the ability to look forward from within -- Chinese cultural treasures as contributions to a mindset of interconnectedness for global transformations -- The systems aliveness approach - from navigating emergency to stewarding wellbeing on a healthy planet -- Part 2: Systems that enable and safeguard wellbeing on a healthy planet -- Setting the scene: Viewing the world as interconnected systems -- Everything is connected - envisioning how a regenerative world looks like -- Managing forestry in a sustainable manner, the importance of system´s analysis -- Sustainable community transformation process.…”
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Biomedical Engineering for Africa
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Infant Warming Device for Neonatal Surgery in a Low-Resource Settings -- Chapter 14. Needle Disposal Device for Use in Low-Resource Settings -- Chapter 15. …”
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Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVIII 18th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2020, Konstanz, Germany, April 27-29, 2020, Proceedings /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Multivariate Time Series as Images: Imputation Using Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder -- Dual Sequential Variational Autoencoders for Fraud Detection -- A Principled Approach to Analyze Expressiveness and Accuracy of Graph Neural Networks -- Efficient Batch-Incremental Classification Using UMAP for Evolving Data Streams -- GraphMDL: Graph Pattern Selection Based on Minimum Description Length -- Towards Content Sensitivity Analysis -- Gibbs Sampling Subjectively Interesting Tiles -- Even Faster Exact k-Means Clustering -- Ising-Based Consensus Clustering on Special Purpose Hardware -- Transfer Learning by Learning Projections from Target to Source -- Computing Vertex-Vertex Dissimilarities Using Random Trees: Application to Clustering in Graphs -- Towards Evaluation of CNN Performance in Semantically Meaningful Latent Spaces -- Vouw: Geometric Pattern Mining Using the MDL Principle -- A Consensus Approach to Improve NMF Document Clustering -- Discriminative Bias for Learning Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams -- Widening for MDL-Based Retail Signature Discovery -- Addressing the Resolution Limit and the Field of View Limit in Community Mining -- Estimating Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Reporting Confidence: An Application on Cell Type Prediction in Testes Based on Proteomics -- Adversarial Attacks Hidden in Plain Sight -- Enriched Weisfeiler-Lehman Kernel for Improved Graph Clustering of Source Code -- Overlapping Hierarchical Clustering (OHC) -- Digital Footprints of International Migration on Twitter -- Percolation-Based Detection of Anomalous Subgraphs in Complex Networks -- A Late-Fusion Approach to Community Detection in Attributed Networks -- Reconciling Predictions in the Regression Setting: an Application to Bus Travel Time Prediction -- A Distribution Dependent and Independent Complexity Analysis of Manifold Regularization -- Actionable Subgroup Discovery and Urban Farm Optimization -- AVATAR - Machine Learning Pipeline Evaluation Using Surrogate Model -- Detection ofDerivative Discontinuities in Observational Data -- Improving Prediction with Causal Probabilistic Variables -- DO-U-Net for Segmentation and Counting -- Enhanced Word Embeddings for Anorexia Nervosa Detection on Social Media -- Event Recognition Based on Classification of Generated Image Captions -- Human-to-AI Coach: Improving Human Inputs to AI Systems -- Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty with Random Forests -- Master your Metrics with Calibration -- Supervised Phrase-Boundary Embeddings -- Predicting Remaining Useful Life with Similarity-Based Priors -- Orometric Methods in Bounded Metric Data -- Interpretable Neuron Structuring with Graph Spectral Regularization -- Comparing the Preservation of Network Properties by Graph Embeddings -- Making Learners (More) Monotone -- Combining Machine Learning and Simulation to a Hybrid Modelling Approach -- LiBRe: Label-Wise Selection of Base Learners in Binary Relevance for Multi-Label Classification -- Angle-Based Crowding Degree Estimation for Many-Objective Optimization.…”
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Global Perspectives of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health, Education, and Role of Media
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Impact of COVID on adolescents, nodal teachers and front-line workers -- 12. The disparate impact of COVID-19 on higher education in India -- 13. …”
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Building Maintenance & Construction Tools and Maintenance Tasks
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Safety -- 1.1 First Aid & Personal Protective Equipment -- 1.2 Eye and Face Protection -- 1.3 Hearing Protection -- 1.4 Head Protection -- 1.5 Hand Protection -- 1.6 Respiratory Protection -- 1.7 Foot Protection -- 1.8 Tool & Shop Safety -- 1.9 Ladder Safety & Fall Protection -- Part 2: Hand & Power Tools -- 2.1 Tool Choices and Applications -- 2.2 Measuring, Marking, Leveling & Layout Tools -- 2.3 Nails, Hammers & Pneumatic Nailers -- 2.4 Threaded Fasteners, Drivers, Pliers & Wrenches -- 2.5 Saws -- 2.6 Drills & Accessories -- 2.7 Grinders, Sanders, & Accessories -- Part 3: Mathematics for Maintenance Techs -- 3.1 Required Math Concepts -- 3.2 Ohm's Law, Joules Law, and Series/Parallel Formulas -- Part 4: Plumbing Systems -- 4.1 Piping & Fittings -- 4.2 Domestic Water Service -- 4.3 Drain, Waste, and Vent (DMV) -- 4.4 Valves & Prevention Devices -- 4.5 Faucets, Fixtures, & Fixture Drains -- 4.6 Plumbing for Appliances -- 4.7 Water Heating -- Part 5: Electrical Systems -- 5.1 Electrical Safety -- 5.2 Electrical Tools & Testing Equipment -- 5.3 Electrical Terminology & Lighting -- 5.4 Conduit, Boxes, & Wiring -- 5.5 Fuses & Breakers -- 5.6 Receptacle & Switch Wiring -- 5.7 Outdoor Wiring Considerations -- Part 6: Maintenance Management Systems -- 6.1 Maintenance Categories -- 6.2 Work Order Process -- 6.3 Parts and Material Resources…”
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R.J. Rummel: An Assessment of His Many Contributions
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Nils Petter Gleditsch: Introduction: R J Rummel: A multi-faceted scholar -- Dawn Akemi: Dad -- Doug Bond: R J Rummel, citizen scholar: An interview on the occasion of his retirement -- Sang-Woo Rhee: Rummel as a great teacher -- Richard Chadwick: Contextualizing Rummel's field theory -- Matthew Kroenig & Bardia Rahmani: R J Rummel, Nuclear superiority, and the limits of détente -- Erich Weede: Rummel's unfinished legacy: Reconciling peace research and realpolitik -- James Lee Ray: Understanding Conflict and War An overlooked classic? …”
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