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The challenges of technology and economic catch-up in emerging economies
This book synthesizes and interprets existing knowledge on technology upgrading failures as well as lessons from successes and failures in order to better understand the challenges of technology upgrading in emerging economies. The objective is to bring together in one volume diverse evidence regarding three major dimensions of technology upgrading: paths of technology upgrading, structural cha…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780192896049
- Collation
- ix, 528 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.90091724 LEE t
Gerontechnology : understanding older adult information and communication tec…
This book presents a typology that explains the diversity of ICT usage seen in older adults. It examines older adult use of everyday Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) across multiple life contexts (work, family, leisure, and community) allowing readers to understand how the growing aging population will use ICTs in their daily lives. The author offers a useful framework to pract…
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- -
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- 9781787432925
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- xv, 203 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.26 BIR g
Agricultural robotics : part of a new deal ? : FIRA 2020 conclusions : with 2…
Throughout the fifth edition of the International Forum of Agricultural Robots (FIRA) in December 2020, more than 1,500 farmers, manufacturers, advanced technology suppliers, innovators, investors, journalists and experts from 71 countries around the world gathered to ask questions, share stories and exchange ideas about agricultural robots. This book is a journey into the state of the art of t…
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- 9
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- 9782759233823
- Collation
- iii; 80 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.16 SEV a
Making Change Happen : Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Abo…
This book is a unique window into a dynamic time in the politics and history of Australia. The two decades from 1970 to the Bicentennial in 1988 saw the emergence of a new landscape in Australian Indigenous politics. There were struggles, triumphs and defeats around land rights, community control of organisations, national coalitions and the international movement for Indigenous rights. The cha…
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- 11
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- 9781921666742
- Collation
- 448
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.484.COO
At home in Renaissance Bruges : connecting objects, people and domestic space…
How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written so…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789462703179
- Collation
- 320 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 747.249332 DEG a
British media coverage of the press reform debate : journalists reporting jou…
This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the British media coverage of the press reform debate that arose from the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry. Gathering data from a content analysis of 870 news articles, Ogbebor shows how journalists cover debates on media policy and illustrates the impact of their coverage on democracy. Through this analysis…
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- 1
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- 9783030372651
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- XI, 227p. ; ill.
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- -
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- 072 OGB b
De sociale betekenis van de buurt : Een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen het …
In The Social Significance of the Neighbourhood the negative image of the social quality of poor urban districts is critically examined based on research in two districts of The Hague. This investigation focuses on the extent to which living in a certain quarter could constitute as an obstacle to social mobility and what role social relations play between local residents therein. Based on inter…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789089640567
- Collation
- 88p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301 PIN
Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and learning with …
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there…
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- -
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- 9780262518543
- Collation
- 440 hlm
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- -
- Call Number
- 302.23108350973
Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market : Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies two forms of social capital that may work to increase employment, income and occupational status and, conversely, decrease unemployment. New insights into the concepts of b…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789089643575
- Collation
- 192p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 331.620943 LAN
Mental Health Care Financing in the Process of Change : Challenges and Approa…
While mental health care has undergone substantial reforms, little attention has been paid to financing issues. This book addresses this shortcoming and brings more transparency into the complex relationship between mental health care reform, service provision and financing. Additionally, it provides rich information about the characteristics of mental health care financing in Western Europe. T…
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- -
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- 9783631754344
- Collation
- 184 hlm
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- -
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- -
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