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Internet of things. information processing in an increasingly connected world…
This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP International Cross-Domain Conference on Internet of Things, IFIPIoT 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. Also included in this volume are 4 WCC 2018 pl…
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- 9783030156510
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- XII, 235 p
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- 004.678 LEO i
Governing the sustainable development goals : quantification in global public…
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implem…
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- 9783031039386
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- XVII, 165 p
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- 338.927 JUS g
Revisiting migrant networks : migrants and their descendants in labour markets
This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and ‘strong ties’. This open access book addresses key questions ab…
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- 9783030949723
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- VIII, 236 p
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- 304.82 ELI r
Organization management - dynamic creative team coordination
This open access book, through an in-depth process study of the interactions of two creative groups (film production crew) in temporary organizations during two media projects, explores how a team developmental process unfolds and proposes a model illustrating how the groups repeatedly change formation so that individuals can manage job interdependencies and new issues arising while developing,…
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- 9783658375096
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- XI, 81 p
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- 658.4022 STA o
Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science : An Application-D…
This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, c…
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- 9783030499952
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- xxi, 380 p.
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- 519.2 PRO J
Big data in organizations and the role of human resource management : a compl…
Big data are changing the way we work. This book conveys a theoretical understanding of big data and the related interactions on a socio-technological level as well as on the organizational level. Big data challenge the human resource department to take a new role. An organization’s new competitive advantage is its employees augmented by big data.
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- 9783631719046
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- ix, 237p ;ill.
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- 658.403801 MSC b
Social Media and Social Order
This book addresses the relationship between social media and social order at multiple scales and sites, from city neighborhoods to national politics, to how the data harvested by transnational corporations influence lives worldwide. It provides insights into how diverse social worlds are being reshaped by social media, analysis of what this means, and reflection on how critical publics might c…
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- 9788366675612
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- ix, 149p ; ill.
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- 302.231 HER s
Transforming Social Work Field Education
Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social workers are expected to use research to inform their practice and to contribute to the production of research. Yet many social workers are reluctant to integrate research into their practice and into…
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- 9781773854403
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- xiii, 411 p. ; ill.
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- 361.7 TRA t
Coolies of capitalism : assam tea and the making of coolie labour
Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were designated "coolies". Qualifying this framework of transition and introduction, this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the histo…
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- 9783110463170
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- 242p. : ill
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- 331.090954 NIT c
Digital work in the planetary market
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work. Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a…
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- 9780262543767
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- viii, 356p. : ill
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- 306.36 DIG d
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