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Policy-oriented technology assessment across Europe : expanding capacities
Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by scienc…
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- 9781137561725
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- xvi, 171p. : ill.
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- 338.9406 POL p
Situating children of migrants across borders and origins : a methodological …
This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing disciplines, and approaches. A key addition in a corpus o…
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- 9789402411416
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- viii, 287p. : ill.
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- 304.8 SIT s
Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy: Migration, Governance, Identities
This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves ar…
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- 9783319446103
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- 300 LOU c
New forms of collaborative innovation and production on the Internet: an inte…
The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and co-producers lead to new forms of production and innovation, as seen in Wikipedia, open source software development, in social networks or on user-generated content platforms as well as in many firm-driven Web 2.0 services. Large-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intrig…
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- 9783863950200
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- 196 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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- 302.30285 WIT n
Ethnic identity, social mobility and the role of soulmates
Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. Using both survey data and open interviews with these ‘minority climbers’, the study details the contextual and temporal nature of identification. The result…
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- 9783319995960
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- xv, 202p. : ill.
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- 304.8 SLO e
Contested childhoods: growing up in migrancy
This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves ar…
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- 9783319446080
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- 193 p.; 22 cm.
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 304.808 COn c
Barriers to play and recreation for children and young people with disabiliti…
This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring different concerns to this review. They are united, however, in their adoption of a rights-based perspective. The UNCRC and UNCRPD emphasise the right …
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- 9783110526042
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- 50 p.
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- 305.231087 BAR b
Social Dynamics in Swiss society
Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family circumstances, work, political participation, and migration over the last sixteen years. What are the different trajectories in terms of mobility, health, wealth, and family co…
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- 9783319895574
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- 306.094940905 TIL s
Efficient learning machines : theories, concepts, and applications for engine…
Machine learning techniques provide cost-effective alternatives to traditional methods for extracting underlying relationships between information and data and for predicting future events by processing existing information to train models. Efficient Learning Machines explores the major topics of machine learning, including knowledge discovery, classifications, genetic algorithms, neural networ…
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- 9781430259909
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- xix, 268p. : ill.
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- 006.31 AWA e
The future of dialects: selected papers from methods in dialectology XV
Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more like national languages. This is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift …
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- 9783946234180
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- v, 411 p.; 22 cm.
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- Language Variation; Vol. 1
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- 417 NER f
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