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Companion to European Heritage Revivals
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Europe and the Frankish Heritage in One of its Heartlands: Alsace; Linde Egberts -- Chapter 3: Battlefield of Histories: Competition over Authenticity and Heritage in an Urban Region in Eastern Netherlands; Linde Egberts -- PART II: REVIVAL TOOLS -- Chapter 4: Strategies for a Heritage Revival in the Digital Age; Jasper Visser -- Chapter 5: Using Games to Mediate History; Connie Veugen -- Chapter 6: "This is Clearly Bullshit": Some Views about History on Television; Mijke Pol -- Chapter 7: Lost Cities, Exotic Travel and Digging up the World: Historical Feature Films as a Means of Enhancing Appreciation of our Archaeological Heritage; Nina Schucker and Jan van Helt -- Chapter 8: When the Past Comes to Life: Historical Reenactment; Peter van der Plaetsen -- Chapter 9: Visualisation of Place and Landscape; Joske Houtkamp, Arnoud de Boer and Henk Kramer -- Chapter 10: From Preservation to Managing Change: Using Spatial Development as a Heritage Revival Tool; Felix van Veldhoven -- Chapter 11: Europe is a Journey: The European Cultural Route as an Instrument for Heritage Revival; Minke Walda -- PART III: CONCEPTS -- Chapter 12: Conceptual Fuel for Reviving the Past: Creating a Heritage Revival in Today's Europe; Linde Egberts.…”
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Knowledge and Action
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…The Decision to Move: Being Mobile and Being Rational in Comparative Anthropological Perspective: Thomas Widlok -- 15. Continuity and Change in Older Adults' Out-of-Home Mobility Over Ten Years: A Qualitative-Quantitative Approach: Heidrun Mollenkopf, Annette Hieber, and Hans-Werner Wahl -- 16. …”
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Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? Looking Over the Long Run /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile -- Chapter 15. Structural change and the fall of income inequality in Latin America - Agricultural development, inter-sectoral duality and the Kuznets curve -- Chapter 16. …”
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Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Understanding the Challenges of the Agriculture Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Part I - Improving Agricultural Productivity -- Chapter 2: Improved Seeds and Agricultural Productivity of Family Farms in Cameroon -- Chapter 3: Breaking the Traditional Trap: Assessing Drivers of Modern Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 4: Input Utilization and Agricultural Labour Productivity: A Gender Analysis -- Chapter 5: Evaluation of Women's On-Farm Trial of Drought Tolerant Maize in Southern Guinea Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Nigeria -- Chapter 6: Impact of Bioenergy Crop Adoption on Total Crop Incomes of Farmers in Northern Ghana: The Case of Jatropha Curcas -- Part II - Addressing Climate Change Challenges -- Chapter 7: Profitability in a Sustainable Agricultural Production System: An Approach by the Soil and Water Conservation -- Chapter 8: Land Tenure and Communities' Vulnerability to Climate Shocks: Insights from the Niger Basin of Benin -- Chapter 9: Impact of Drought Index Insurance on Supplemental Irrigation: A Randomized Controlled Trial Experimental Evidence in Northern Ghana -- Part III - Promoting Agro-Industrialization -- Chapter 10: Does the Development of the Agricultural Sector Affect the Manufacturing Sector? …”
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Coming to Terms with Superdiversity The Case of Rotterdam /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction - Peter Scholten, Maurice Crul and Paul van de Laar -- PART I: SUPERDIVERSITY IN ROTTERDAM: 2 Rotterdam's superdiversity from a historical perspective (1600-1980) - Paul van de Laar and Arie van der Schoor -- 3 The second and third generation in Rotterdam: increasing diversity within diversity - Maurice Crul, Frans Lelie and Elif Keskiner -- 4 Between choice and stigma: Identifications of economically successful migrants - Marianne van Bochove and Jack Burgers -- PART II: ROTTERDAM'S RESPONSE TO SUPERDIVERSITY: -- 6 'Walking the walk' rather than 'talking the talk' of superdiversity: Continuity and change in the development of Rotterdam's immigrant integration policies - Rianne Dekker & Ilona van Breugel -- 7 Laboratory Rotterdam. …”
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Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities A Global Assessment /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Local assessment of Cape Town.- 25. Climate change and urban biodiversity vulnerability -- 26. …”
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Sustainability Standards and Global Governance Experiences of Emerging Economies /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The impact of global labour standards on export performance -- Part II - Sustainability Standards in Sectoral and Country Contexts -- Chapter 8. The changing landscape of sustainability standards in Indonesia: Potentials and pitfalls of making global value chains more sustainable -- Chapter 9. …”
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Cultivating Teacher Resilience International Approaches, Applications and Impact /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…-- 2 Understanding and examining teacher resilience from multiple perspectives -- 3 A BRiTE journey -- Section 2 Implementation and Applications -- 4 Staying BRiTE: An introduction -- 5 Connecting, embedding and developing BRiTE across multiple levels -- 6 Thinking dispositions for teaching: Enabling and supporting resilience in context -- 7 Implementing BRiTE in Initial Teacher Education Programs: through the eyes of the teacher educators -- 8 Doing it resiliently: Using arts-based approaches to embed resilience in professional experience learning -- 9 Building resilience for Early Years teachers -- 10 BRiTE mind: An online module to support mindful teacher resilience -- Section 3 Interventions and Impact -- 11 Building Resilience: Using BRiTE with beginning teachers in the US -- 12 Positive education: A professional learning programme to foster teacher's resilience and well-being -- 13 The professional assessment and development induction program:Application of the BRiTE project to the Spanish context -- 14 Practical applications for building teacher wellbeing in education -- 15 Understanding teacher wellbeing through job demands-resources theory -- Section 4 Future Directions -- 16 BRiTE-AR ways to prepare preservice teachers: Augmented reality addressing conflict and stress -- 17 Staying BRiTE in the Dutch teacher education context -- 18 Navigating changing times: Exploring teacher educator experiences of resilience -- 19 Looking back and moving forward.…”
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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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Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…The Impact of Research on Development Policy and Practice: This Much We Know -- Chapter 3: Constructing Theories of Change for Information Society Impact Research -- Chapter 4: A New Set of Questions: ICT4D Research and Policy -- Chapter 5: Progress Towards Resolving the Measurement Link Between ICT and Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 6: The Impact of mFinance Initiatives in the Global South: A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 7: An Analytical Framework to Incorporate ICT as an Independent Variable -- Part II: Research on Impact -- Chapter 8: (Un)Balanced Conversations: Participatory Action Research in Technology Development in Peruvian Primary Schools -- Chapter 9: The Institutional Dynamics Perspective of ICT for Health Initiatives in India -- Chapter 10: Cybersex as Affective Labour: Critical Interrogations of the Philippine ICT Framework and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 -- Chapter 11: The Internet and Indonesian Women Entrepreneurs: Examining the Impact of Social Media on Women Empowerment -- Chapter 12. …”
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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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Writing Programs Worldwide Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Writing to Learn Biology in the Framework of a Didactic-Curricular Change in the First Year Program at an Argentine University, Ana De Micheli and Patricia Iglesia -- Chapter 4. …”
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems 25th International Conference, TACAS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice o...
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…SAT and SMT -- Decomposing Farkas Interpolants -- Parallel SAT Simplification on GPU Architectures -- Encoding Redundancy for Satisfaction-Driven Clause Learning -- WAPS: Weighted and Projected Sampling -- Building Better Bit-Blasting for Floating-Point Problems -- The Axiom Profiler: Understanding and Debugging SMT Quantifier Instantiations -- On the Empirical Time Complexity of Scale-Free 3-SAT at the Phase Transition -- Modular and Efficient Divide-and-Conquer SAT Solver on Top of the Painless Framework -- SAT Solving and Theorem Proving -- Quantitative Verification of Masked Arithmetic Programs against Side-Channel Attacks -- Incremental Analysis of Evolving Alloy Models -- Extending a Brainiac Prover to Lambda-Free Higher-Order Logic -- Verification and Analysis LCV: A Verification Tool for Linear Controller Software -- Semantic Fault Localization and Suspiciousness Ranking -- Computing Coupled Similarity -- Reachability Analysis for Termination and Confluence of Rewriting -- Model Checking -- VoxLogicA: a Spatial Model Checker for Declarative Image Analysis -- On Reachability in Parameterized Phaser Programs -- Abstract Dependency Graphs and Their Application to Model Checking -- Tool Demo -- nonreach - A Tool for Nonreachability Analysis -- The Quantitative Verification Benchmark Set -- ILAng: A Modeling Platform for SoC Verification using Instruction-Level Abstractions -- MetAcsl: Specification and Verification of High-Level Properties -- ROLL 1.0: !…”
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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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Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Introduction Digital Touch Communication -- Introduction -- Touch matters -- Digital Touch -- Situating this Book: A Social Revaluing of the Sensory and Multimodal -- InTouch Digital Touch Communication -- Overview of the Book -- In-Touch Case Studies -- In Touch with Baby -- The Art of Remote Contact -- Tactile Emoticon -- Designing Digital Touch -- Virtual Touch -- Interdisciplinary Collaborations to Explore Touch -- Introduction -- Interdisciplinary Dialogues of Digital Touch Communication -- Prototyping -- Conclusion -- The landscape of digital touch communication -- Introduction -- Affective and Social Robot Touch -- Human-Object Touch Communication -- Object/Textile Handling -- Education and Training -- Disability and Rehabilitation -- Conclusion -- Social Normsof Touch -- Introduction -- Technology and Changing Social Norms -- Digital Touch and Social Norms -- Touching the body -- Digital Touching -- Conclusion -- Touch presence, absence and connection -- Introduction -- Tactile Emoticon -- Beyond the Interface -- Remote Contact -- Touch Connection as a Bodily Way of Knowing -- In Touch with Baby -- Conclusion -- Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Digital Touch -- Introduction -- The Sociotechnical Imaginary as a Design Resource -- Body -- Time -- Place and Spatiality -- New Methodological Routes to Imagining Digital Touch Futures Conclusion -- Digital Touch Ethics and Values -- Introduction -- What is Ethical Touch? …”
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Human and Organisational Factors Practices and Strategies for a Changing World /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…HOF: Adjusting the Rule-Based Safety/Managed Safety Balance and Keeping Pace with a Changing Reality, by Caroline Kamaté.…”
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Robotics, AI, and Humanity Science, Ethics, and Policy /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Foundations of artificial intelligence and effective universal induction -- SECTION II) AI AND ROBOTICS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY (WORK, FARMING, SERVICES AND POVERTY) -- 6. …”
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Climate Risk in Africa Adaptation and Resilience /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Rowell, Richard Jones -- Chapter 3: Co-production; learning from contexts; Katharine Vincent, Anna Steynor, Alice McClure, Emma Visman, Katinka Lund Waagsaether, Suzanne Carter, Neha Mittal -- Chapter 4: Decision-making heuristics for managing climate-related risks: introducing Equity to the FREE framework; Camilla Audia, Emma Visman, Gino Fox, Emmah Mwangi, Mary Kilavi, Mark Arango, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Dominic Kniveton -- Chapter 5: Creating useful and usable weather and climate information: insights from Participatory Scenario Planning in Malawi; Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema, Katharine Vincent, Rebecka Henriksson -- Chapter 6: High stakes decisions under uncertainty: dams, development and climate change in the Rufiji River basin; Christian Siderius, Robel Geressu, Martin C. …”
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Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations Value Creation for Inclusive Outcomes /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Section A: Overview, Institutional Change and Scaling -- Chapter 1 - Overview -- Chapter 2 - Innovation models to deliver value at scale: the RTB Program -- Chapter 3 - Scaling Readiness: learnings from applying a novel approach to support scaling of food system innovations -- Section B: Processing, Marketing and Distribution -- Chapter 4 - Cost-effective cassava processing: Case study of small-scale flash dryer reengineering -- Chapter 5 - Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Puree, a Breakthrough Product for the Bakery Sector in Africa -- Chapter 6 - Turning waste to wealth: Harnessing the potential of cassava peels for nutritious animal feed -- Chapter 7 - Transferring cassava processing technology from Brazil to Africa -- Chapter 8 - Improving Safety of Cassava Products -- Section C: Enhancing productivity -- Chapter 9 - Innovative digital technologies to monitor and control pest and disease threats in root, tuber, and banana (RTB) cropping systems: Progress and prospects -- Chapter 10 - Scaling banana bacterial wilt management through single diseased stem removal in the Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 11 - Toolbox for Working with Root, Tuber and Banana Seed Systems -- Chapter 12. …”
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