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Migration and pandemics: spaces of solidarity and spaces of exception
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses seve…
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- 9783030812102
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- xxii, 248 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 614.592414 TRI m
AI art : machine visions and warped dreams
Can computers be creative? Is algorithmic art just a form of Candy Crush? Cutting through the smoke and mirrors surrounding computation, robotics and artificial intelligence, Joanna Zylinska argues that, to understand the promise of AI for the creative fields, we must not confine ourselves solely to the realm of aesthetics. Instead, we need to address the role and position of the human in the c…
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- 9781785420856
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- 181 p. : color, ill.
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- 111.85 ZYL a
Benefit/cost-driven software development : with benefit points and size points
This open access book presents a set of basic techniques for estimating the benefit of IT development projects and portfolios. It also offers methods for monitoring how much of that estimated benefit is being achieved during projects. Readers can then use these benefit estimates together with cost estimates to create a benefit/cost index to help them decide which functionalities to send into…
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- 9783030742188
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- xiii, 103p. : ill.
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- 005.1 HAN b
Teaching learners with visual impairment
This book, Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment, focuses on holistic support to learners with visual impairment in and beyond the classroom and school context. Special attention is given to classroom practice, learning support, curriculum differentiation and assessment practices, to mention but a few areas of focus covered in the book. In this manner, this book makes a significant contribut…
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- 9781928523819
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- xxxix, 376 p.
- Series Title
- Opening Eyes, 2
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- 371.9 TEA t
Operationalisation of hybrid peacebuilding in Asia : from theory to practice
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the foundation for introducing the mid-space actor typology is established. Mid-space actors as insider-partial mediators are perceived to be vital agents for peace processes in confl…
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- 9783030677589
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- xix, 203p. : ill.
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- 327.17209596 OPE o
Dukungan teknologi menuju pengembangan kawasan jagung di Sumatra Utara
Senjangnya hasil produk tanaman jagung antara produksi aktual dan potensi hasil khususnya di area dengan lahan jagung potensial—Sumatra Utara—membuat seluruh upaya dan program yang telah digalakkan, termasuk oleh pemerintah, perlu dikaji ulang. Kondisi ini menyiratkan fakta bahwa program-program dari pemerintah belum sepenuhnya diadopsi dengan baik oleh petani. Proses kaji ulang tersebut…
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- 9786024962333
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- xvi, 96 hlm.; ill. 21 cm
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- 664.7 GIR d
Materialized identities in early modern culture, 1450-1750 : objects, affects…
"This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and explo…
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- 9789048554058
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- -, 417 p.; ill
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- 700 MAT m
Student feedback on teaching in schools : using student perceptions for the d…
This open access book provides a comprehensive and informative overview of the current state of research about student perceptions of and student feedback on teaching. After presentation of a new student feedback process model, evidence concerning the validity and reliability of student perceptions of teaching quality is discussed. This is followed by an overview of empirical research on the ef…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030751500
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- xiii, 271p. : ill.
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- 371.144 STU s
Social exclusion in later life : interdisciplinary and policy perspectives
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of …
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- 9783030514068
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- xxix, 450p. : ill.
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- 302.545 SOC s
The cultural identity and education of University Students in selected East-C…
In Polish and Czech pedagogy, there have not been many studies on the social, cultural and educational functioning of academic youth in a culturally diversified environment. The analysis of identity behaviours presented by university students from the Polish-Czech borderland and of their learning potentialities will provide a chance for mutual recognition, understanding and the enrichment of bo…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783737012546
- Collation
- 238 p.
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- 374 THE t
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