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High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications Selected Results of the COST Action IC1406 cHiPSet /

Table of Contents: “…Why High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications Matters -- Parallelization of hierarchical matrix algorithms for electromagnetic scattering problems -- Tail Distribution and Extreme Quantile Estimation using Non-Parametric Approaches -- Towards efficient and scalable data-intensive content delivery: State-of-the-art, issues and challenges -- Big Data in 5G Distributed Applications -- Big Data Processing, Analysis and Applications in Mobile Cellular Networks -- Medical Data Processing and Analysis for Remote Health and Activities Monitoring -- Towards human cell simulation -- Cloud-based High Throughput Virtual Screening in Novel Drug Discovery -- Ultra Wide Band Body Area Networks: Design and integration with Computational Clouds -- Survey on AI-based multimodal methods for emotion detection -- Forecasting Cryptocurrency Value by Sentiment Analysis: An HPC-oriented Survey of the State-of-the-Art in the Cloud Era.…”
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Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Ras -- Chapter 3: Not all human trafficking is created equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts - Narratological and Media Studies Approaches; Nina Muždeka -- Chapter 4: "In the suitcase was a boy": Representing transnational child trafficking in contemporary crime fiction; Charlotte Beyer -- Chapter 5: Who are the Traffickers? A cultural criminological analysis of traffickers as represented in the Al Jazeera documentary series Modern Slavery: A Twenty-First Century Evil; Melissa Dearey -- Conclusion; Ilse A. …”
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The European Landing Obligation Reducing Discards in Complex, Multi-Species and Multi-Jurisdictional Fisheries /

Table of Contents: “…Onboard and vessel layout modifications -- 17. What to do with unwanted catches: valorisation options and selection strategies -- Part V. …”
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Researching Elites and Power Theory, Methods, Analyses /

Table of Contents: “…An interview with Monique and Michel Pinçon-Charlot -- Chapter 17. When moral obligation meets physical opportunity. …”
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Multiscale Biomechanics and Tribology of Inorganic and Organic Systems In memory of Professor Sergey Psakhie /

Table of Contents: “…In Memory of Professor Sergey Grigorievich Psakhie -- Biomechanical and Tribological Aspects of Orthopaedic Implants -- A New Method for Seismically Safe Managing of Seismotectonic Deformations in Fault Zones -- Particle-Based Approach for Simulation of Nonlinear Material Behavior in Contact Zones -- A Tool for Studying the Mechanical Behavior of the Bone-Endoprosthesis System Based on Multi-scale Simulation -- Abstract Methods on Mesoscopic Scales of Friction -- Study of Dynamics of Block-Media in the Framework of Minimalistic Numerical Models -- Material Transfer by Friction Stir Processing -- Nanomaterials Interaction with Cell Membranes: Computer Simulation Studies -- Application of Crumpled Aluminum Hydroxide Nanostructures for Cancer Treatment -- Influence of Lattice Curvature and Nanoscale Mesoscopic Structural States on the Wear Resistance and Fatigue Life of Austenitic Steel -- Autowave Mechanics of Plastic Flow -- Three-Component Wear-Resistant PEEK-Based Composites Filled with PTFE and MoS2: Composition Optimization, Structure Homogenization, and Self-Lubricating Effect -- Regularities of Structural Rearrangements in Single- and Bicrystals Near the Contact Zone -- Fault Sliding Modes - Governing, Evolution and Transformation -- Multilayer Modelling of Lubricated Contacts: A New Approach Based on a Potential Field Description -- Microstructure-Based Computational Analysis of Deformation and Fracture in Composite and Coated Materials Across Multiple Spatial Scales -- Formation of a Nanostructured Hardened Surface Layer on the TiC-(Ni-Cr) Metal-Ceramic Alloy by Pulsed Electron-Beam Irradiation -- Adhesion of a Thin Soft Matter Layer: The Role of Surface Tension -- Adhesion Hysteresis Due to Chemical Heterogeneity -- Theoretical Study of Physico-Mechanical Response of Permeable Fluid-Saturated Materials under Complex Loading Based on the Hybrid Cellular Automaton Method -- Transfer of a Biological Fluid Through a Porous Wall of a Capillary -- Failure Mechanisms of Alloys with a Bimodal Graine Size Distribution -- Self-Reproduction Cycles of Living Matter and Energetics of Human Activity -- Seeing what Lies in Front of Your Eyes: Understanding and Insight in Teaching and Research.…”
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Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions

Table of Contents: “…1 History of the European-Japanese Cerebrovascular Congress -- PART I INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS -- 2 When is Diagnostic Subtraction Angiography Indicated Before Clipping of Unruptured and Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms? …”
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Peer review in an Era of Evaluation Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia /

Table of Contents: “…; Malcolm Tight -- 9: Peer advocacy - loyalties, wish lists and tough love in national peer review;Lars Geschwind -- 10: Many faces of scientific evaluation: use of public, professional and organizational power; Jonna Kosonen, Tea Vellamo, Taru Siekkinen & Elias Pekkola -- 11: Disciplinary boundary work - Peer-review and the (full) professorship; Eva Forsberg, Rita Foss Lindblad, Sara Levander & Sverker Lindblad -- 12: Assessing academic careers: Crafting the 'excellent' professor in biomedicine, economics and history; Björn Hammarfelt -- 13: Peer review in academic promotion - when teaching excellence is at stake; Maja Elmgren, Eva Forsberg, Sara Levander -- 14: Performance-based evaluation metrics - influence at the macro, meso and micro level; Gustaf Nelhans -- 15: The role of peer review in the evidence making processes of systematic review; Tine S. …”
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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene

Table of Contents: “…Learning from Flint: How Matter Imposes Itself in the Anthropocene and What That Means for Education -- 16. Resurrecting Science Education by Re-Inserting Women, Nature, and Complexity -- 17. …”
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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - Workshops XP 2021 Workshops, Virtual Event, June 14-18, 2021, Revised Selected Papers /

Table of Contents: “…3rd international workshop on Agile Transformation -- Agile Transformation at Scale: A Tertiary Study -- Institutional Logics in Large-Scale Agile Software Development Transformations -- 9th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development -- Innovation in Large-scale agile - Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons when Hacking from Home -- Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic for Software Development in Nordic Companies - Agility Helps to Respond -- The EFIS framework for leveraging agile organizations within large enterprises -- Managing Dependencies in Large-Scale Agile -- First International Workshop on Agile Sustainability -- How Collective Intelligence Can Gear Agility with Sustainability -- 4th International Workshop on Software-intensive Businesses -- SaaS Pricing Practices Typology: A Case Study -- Is your Software Ecosystem in Danger? …”
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Designing Data Spaces The Ecosystem Approach to Competitive Advantage /

Table of Contents: “…Legal Aspects of IDS: Data Sovereignty-What Does It Imply? -- 6. Tokenomics: Decentralized Incentivization in the Context of Data Spaces -- Part II: Data Space Technologies -- 7. …”
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Education, Equity and Inclusion Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable North /

Table of Contents: “…"A lesson is most exciting [when] the teacher typically explains complex topics" - A student perspective on public schooling in Greenland -- Chapter 10. …”
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Introduction to Digital Humanism A Textbook /

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Background -- Humanism and Enlightenment -- Philosophical Foundations of Digital Humanism -- Evolution of Computing -- The Digital Revolution in a Historical Perspective -- The Social Responsibilities of Scientists and Technologists in the Digital Age -- "Digital transformation through the lens of intersectional gender research Challenges and needs for action -- No Digital Citizens Without Digital Humanisms -- Digital Transformation, Digital Humanism - What Needs to Be Done -- Part 2: Digital Humanism- a System's View -- A Short Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Methods, Success Stories, and Current Limitations -- Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: Comprehensible, Transparent, Correctable -- ARE WE IN CONTROL? …”
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Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People

Table of Contents: “…Children's Digital Boundary Crossings When Moving in Between Porous Ecosystems -- 5. Investigating Patterns of Digital Socialisation During Leisure Through Multimodal Social Research -- 6. …”
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Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

Table of Contents: “…Mills -- Part V: Consequences of Childlessness: What's a (Childless) Man Without a Woman? The Differential Importance of Couple Dynamics for the Wellbeing of Childless Men and Women in the Netherlands: Renske Keizer & Katya Ivanova -- Fertility and Women's Old-Age Income in Germany: Tatjana Mika & Christin Czaplicki -- Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers in LaterLife across Europe: Marco Albertini & Martin Kohli.…”
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NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020 Deterrence in the 21st Century-Insights from Theory and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Nuclear Deterrence in the Algorithmic Age: Game Theory Revisited -- Chapter 24. What's on the Human Mind? Decision Theory and Deterrence -- Chapter 25. …”
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Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves /

Table of Contents: “…Spillovers across life domains -- Subjective well-being, family dynamics and vulnerability -- Positive and negative spillover effects: Managing multiple goals in middle adulthood -- How personal relationships affect employment outcomes: On the role of social networks and family obligations -- When mobility meets gender in the multidimensional transnational life course -- Intimate partner loss in later life -- Synthesis: Multidimensional perspective of vulnerability and life course -- Section 2: Vulnerability at the articulation of levels -- Social policies, vulnerability and the life course: A complex nexus -- Vulnerabilities in local contexts -- How family and other close ties shape vulnerability processes -- The many faces of social connectedness and their impact on well-being -- Vulnerability and health issues: Trajectories, experiences and meanings -- Synthesis: Multilevel studies on vulnerability processes -- Section 3: The unfolding of vulnerable life trajectories -- Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health in the second half of life: The role of gender and welfare states in the life course of Europeans -- Ageing and reserves -- Vulnerabilities and psychological adjustment resources in career development -- On the sociohistorical construction of social and economic reserves across the life course and on their use in old age -- Life trajectories as products and determinants of social vulnerability -- Synthesis: Overcoming vulnerability? …”
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ePortfolio Performance Support Systems Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios

Table of Contents: “…D'Angelo and Barry M. Maid -- Chapter 5. What Are You Going to Do With That Major? An ePortfolio as Bridge from University to the World, Karen Ramsay Johnson and Susan Kahn -- Chapter 6. …”
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Mastering Strategic Management by Edwards, Janice, Ketchen, Dave, Short, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Mastering Strategy: Art and Science -- Defining Strategic Management and Strategy -- Intended, Emergent, and Realized Strategies -- The History of Strategic Management -- Understanding the Strategic Management Process -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- Leading Strategically -- Vision, Mission, and Goals -- Assessing Organizational Performance -- The CEO as Celebrity -- Entrepreneurial Orientation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- Evaluating the External Environment -- The Relationship between an Organization and Its Environment -- Evaluating the General Environment -- Evaluating the Industry -- Mapping Strategic Groups -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Managing Firm Resources -- Resource-Based Theory -- Intellectual Property -- Value Chain -- Beyond Resource-Based Theory: Other Views on Firm Performance -- SWOT Analysis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Selecting Business-Level Strategies -- Understanding Business-Level Strategy through “Generic Strategies” -- Cost Leadership -- Differentiation -- Focused Cost Leadership and Focused Differentiation -- Best-Cost Strategy -- Stuck in the Middle -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 -- Supporting the Business-Level Strategy: Competitive and Cooperative Moves -- Making Competitive Moves -- Responding to Competitors' Moves -- Making Cooperative Moves -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 -- Competing in International Markets -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Competing in International Markets -- Drivers of Success and Failure When -- Competing in International Markets -- Types of International Strategies -- Options for Competing in International Markets -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 -- Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies -- Concentration Strategies -- Vertical Integration Strategies -- Diversification Strategies -- Strategies for Getting Smaller -- Portfolio Planning and Corporate-Level Strategy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 -- Executing Strategy through Organizational Design -- The Basic Building Blocks of Organizational Structure -- Creating an Organizational Structure -- Creating Organizational Control Systems -- Legal Forms of Business -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 -- Leading an Ethical Organization: Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility -- Boards of Directors -- Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility -- Understanding Thought Patterns: A Key to Corporate Leadership? …”
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The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- PART 1: WHY SMALLHOLDERS REMAIN KEY FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY? …”
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Documenting the Armenian Genocide Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Women and Girls -- The Victims of "Safety": The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon -- Cohabitating in Captivity: Vartouhie Calantar Nalbandian (Zarevand) at the Women's Section of Istanbul's Central Prison (1915-1918) -- Reenacting Testimony: The Armenian Genocide, Early Cinema, and Humanitarianism -- Part II: Agency and Assistance -- "Special Kind of Refugees": Assisting Armenians in Erzincan, Bayburt, and Erzurum -- On the Verge of Death and Survival: Krikor Bogharian's diary -- Categories and their Interstices: The Armenian Genocide Beyond Resistance and Accommodation -- Part III: Genocide and Society -- The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians -- Refocusing on - Crimes Against - Humanity -- Taner Akcam as Scholar-Activist and Armenian-Turkish Relations -- Part IV: Consensus and Debate -- The Margins of Academia or Challenging the Official Ideology -- The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894-1924 -- Since the Centennial:New Departures in the Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide, 2015-2021.…”
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