＜p＞The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both parties have never been more tenuous. In this book, prominent elections scholar and political commentator Larry J. Sabato brings together respected journalists and experts from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the midterm election results and the implications for the 2016 election cycle. In frank, accessible prose, each author offers insight that goes beyond the headlines to analyze what the midterm results mean and what is at stake in the coming presidential race.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contributions by: Alan I. Abramowitz, Mark Blumenthal, Jamelle Bouie, Rhodes Cook, Robert Costa, Ariel Edwards-Levy, James Hohmann, Jill Lawrence, Joshua T. Putnam, Michael E. Toner, Karen E. Trainer, Sean Trende＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This two-volume set LNCS 12792 and 12793 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Instructional Systems, AIS 2021, held as Part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. The papers of AIS 2021, Part I, are organized in topical sections named: Conceptual Models and Instructional Approaches for AIS; Designing and Developing AIS; Evaluation of AIS; Adaptation Strategies and Methods in AIS.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Chapter “Personalized Mastery Learning Ecosystems: Using Bloom’s Four Objects of Change to Drive Learning in Adaptive Instructional Systems” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Considering the future of European integration, this clear and compelling study explores the interplay between collective action and democracy in the European Union and its member states. Richard Balme and Didier Chabanet analyze the influence of supranational governance on democratization through a wealth of case studies on a broad range of civil society interests, including regional policy, unemployment and poverty, women's rights, migration policy, and environmental protection.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The authors trace the evolving relationship between citizens and European institutions over the past decades, especially as public support for deepening and widening integration has waned. This trend culminated in a deep institutional crisis precipitated by the rejection of the draft constitutional treaty in France and the Netherlands in 2005. At least two truisms were proven wrong during this tumultuous period: that European citizens have little interest in European integration and that citizens have little influence on EU politics. However, this power shift has left citizens with a deep distrust of integration and EU institutions with limited capacities to cope with issues the public considers priorities-primarily unemployment and social inequalities.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book shows how Europe-wide interest groups formed and protesters were able to mobilize around key issues of integration. The authors convincingly argue that the growth of contentious social movements has also been nourished by the EU policy process itself, which leaves more room for interest groups and protest politics than for political parties and representative democracy. An essential primer on European democracy, this study will be invaluable for scholars and students in European politics and public policy, globalization and democracy, and comparative social movements.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This six-volume set of LNCS 14187, 14188, 14189, 14190, 14191 and 14192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in San Jos?, CA, USA, in August 2023. The 53 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 316 submissions, and are presented with 101 poster presentations.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The papers are organized into the following topical sections: Graphics Recognition, Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Document Analysis and Recognition.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Victorian literature’s fascination with the past, its examination of social injustice, and its struggle to deal with the dichotomy between scientific discoveries and religious faith continue to fascinate scholars and contemporary readers. During the past hundred years, traditional formalist and humanist criticism has been augmented by new critical approaches, including feminism and gender studies, psychological criticism, cultural studies, and others.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature, twelve scholars offer new assessments of Victorian poetry, novels, and nonfiction. Their essays examine several major authors and works, and introduce discussions of many others that have received less scholarly attention in the past. General reviews of the current status of Victorian literature in the academic world are followed by essays on such writers as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and the Bront? sisters. These are balanced by essays that focus on writing by women, the development of the social problem novel, and the continuity of Victorian writers with their Romantic forebears.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Most importantly, the contributors to this volume approach Victorian literature from a decidedly contemporary scholarly angle and write for a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists alike. Their essays offer readers an idea of how critical commentary in recent years has influencedーand in some cases changed radicallyーour understanding of and approach to literary study in general and the Victorian period in particular. Hence, scholars, teachers, and students will find the volume a useful survey of contemporary commentary not just on Victorian literature, but also on the period as a whole.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This two-volume set LNCS 14218 and LNCS 14219 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2023, held in Lecce, Italy, during September 6-9, 2023.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 59 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They cover a wide range of many different research topics such as: eXtended reality; digital twin; artificial intelligence; user experience in eXtended reality; virtual reality for neurofeedback, biofeedback and emotion recognition; eXtended reality in education; eXtended reality and metaverse in cultural heritage; eXtended reality in health and medicine; and eXtended reality in industrial field.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Medical Licensing and Discipline in America traces the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical antecedents in the 18th and 19th century to its modern structure. David A. Johnson and Humayun J. Chaudhry provide an organizational history of the Federation of State Medical Boards within the broader context of the development of America’s state-based system. As the national organization representing the interests of the individual state medical boards, the Federation has been at the forefront of developments in licensing, discipline, and regulation impacting the medical profession, medical education, and health policy within the United States. The narrative shifts between micro- and macro-level developments in the evolution of America’s medical licensing system, blending national context with state-specific and Federation initiatives. For example, the book documents such milestones as the national shift toward greater public accountability by state medical boards as evidenced by California’s inclusion of public members on its medical board, New Mexico’s requirement for continuing medical education by physicians as a condition for license renewal and the Federation’s policy development work advocating for both initiatives among all state medical boards.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book begins by examining the 18th and 19th century origins of the modern state-based medical regulatory system, including the reinstitution of licensing boards in the latter part of the 19th century and the early challenges facing boards, e.g., license portability, examinations, physician impostors, inter-professional tensions among physicians, etc. Medical Licensing and Discipline in America picks up the story of the Federation and its role in the major issue of licensing and discipline in the 20th century: uniformity in medical statute, evaluation of international medical graduates, nationally administered examinations for licensure, etc.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞It is never easy to begin an innovative practice in any educational organization. The inertia of the existing culture can often be overwhelming. Michael K. Raible provides insights into how to create an environment in which performance-based innovations can flourish. Many schools and whole districts that have created their own models of student-driven performance-based education have demonstrated remarkable success. Creating Academic Momentum contains insights and advice to anyone trying to change and improve their traditional program delivery. You will want to read this book with a highlighter and pen!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, CICM 2021, held in Timisoara, Romania, in July 2021*.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 12 full papers, 7 system descriptions, 1 system entry, and 3 abstracts of invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 38 submissions. The papers focus on advances in formalization, automatic theorem proving and learning, search and classification, teaching and geometric reasoning, and logic and systems, among other topics.＜/p＞ ＜p＞* The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞＜em＞Library Roles in Achieving Financial Literacy among its Patrons＜/em＞ is a collection of articles from 25 librarians in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, each contributing 3,000-4,000 words: concise chapters with sidebars, bullets, and headers; there is an introduction. Contributors were selected for the creative potential in their topics, those that can be used in various types of libraries and that demonstrate a command of financial literacy and are able to communicate what they know to aiding users solve their financial information problems. The collection has three sections. The first provides an overview of financial literacy: what it means generally, what needs exist among library patrons, and what approaches have been tried to date. The second section deals with resources that are available in libraries, or should be made available. These include collections, skill sets in librarians, program opportunities and others. The third section is a series of case studies that demonstrate successes and best practices.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2022, which was held Troy, NY, USA in December 2022.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 19 full papers presented together with 19 abstracts in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, economics, operations research, and applied mathematics.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three major goals: first, to foreground shared themes and strategies in the literary productions of women of Africana and Latina/o descent; second, to highlight the importance of the arts for community activism within shared diasporic spaces; and third, to illustrate the potential of artistic and activist collaborations among women from both groups across disciplinary, political, national, and ethnic divides. Dialogues across Diasporas is divided into three sections. The first section provides a theoretical overview of diasporic migrations, politics, and identities. It argues that diverse diasporas can unite around shared political and cultural experiences such as converting contested spaces into communities and resisting rhetorics of exclusion. The second section demonstrates the diverse ways in which migratory women and daughters of the diaspora frame their histories, lived experiences, and different forms of knowledge via poetry, short stories, academic essays, and other art forms. The third section focuses on women’s activism, suggesting opportunities for collaboration among and between diverse diasporic communities.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite workshops held around the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2023, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 2023.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 34 full papers and 13 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They stem from the following workshops:＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 1st ACNS Workshop on Automated Methods and Data-driven Techniques in Symmetric-key Cryptanalysis (ADSC 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 5th ACNS Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain Security (AIBlock 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 4th ACNS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (AIHWS 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 5th ACNS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial IoT Security (AIoTS 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 3rd ACNS Workshop on Critical Infrastructure and Manufacturing System Security (CIMSS 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 5th ACNS Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy (Cloud S&P 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 4th ACNS Workshop on Secure Cryptographic Implementation (SCI 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 4th ACNS Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies (SecMT 2023)＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ 5th ACNS Workshop on Security in Machine Learning and its Applications (SiMLA 2023)＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established scholars contributed chapters based on their original field research, following each chapter with a personal reflection on doing field work. The volume concludes with an original essay by Kathryn Dudley, an anthropologist who has spent decades studying the intersections of work, family, and class in American culture. As a whole, the volume highlights how culture shapes family life amid shifting social and economic landscapes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The authors, working in the fields of anthropology and sociology, observed daily life at workplaces and in homes, interviewing people about their work, their children, and their ideas about what makes a good family. They report on their fieldwork in essays rich with the detail of everyday life, revealing the fascinating diversity of American middle-class families through chapters about gay co-father families, African American stay-at-home mothers, first-time fathers, rural refugees from corporate America, well-off white mothers, Taiwanese immigrant churches, the fetal ultrasound, and more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class＜/em＞ is an excellent text for classes in anthropology, sociology, American culture, family studies, work and family, and gender studies.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞A History of the Handel Choir of Baltimore (1935-2013): Music, Spread Thy Voice Around chronicles the history of one of America’s longstanding volunteer choral organizations, one that has followed in the footsteps of venerable ensembles such as the Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), the Bethlehem Bach Choir, and the Handel Society of Dartmouth College. It begins by considering music in the city of Baltimore, and establishing the reasons surrounding the choir’s formation. Substantial coverage is given to the influence of Katharine M. Lucke, one of Baltimore’s grandes damesーas a composer, mover, and shakerーand a vital force in Baltimore’s National Music Week from her position on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Subsequently the book focuses on the contributions of each of the ten conductor/music directors, the vicissitudes of funding a volunteer choir, the choir’s contributions to music education in the greater Baltimore metropolitan area, and the choir’s repertoire. The book contains extensive appendices describing the choir’s repertoire, its presidents, and its unbroken string of Messiah performances.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Throughout more than seventy-five years, the Handel Choir of Baltimore has remained true to its original charter as an amateur choral organization that aspires to the highest standards of artistic excellence. A History of the Handel Choir of Baltimore is an invaluable resource to those interested in choral music studies, the running of an amateur, volunteer choir, and other disciplines of music studies.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This two-volume set LNCS 12789 and 12790 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on HCI in Games, HCI-Games 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.＜br /＞ The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. The papers of HCI-Games 2021, Part I, are organized in topical sections named: Experience Design in Games; User Engagement and Game Impact; Game Mechanics.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Parents are those social factors that can positively influence their child’s learning of mathematics. Using Teacher Inquiry for Knowing and Supporting Parents with Mathematics serves as a teacher’s inquiry guide for supporting parents in this critical role. Steps for investigating the manner in which parents and children work together on mathematics tasks, such as homework and projects, are shared. Findings gleaned from such investigation cultivate a state of knowing that positions teachers to support parents, and in turn their students, in meaningful and relevant ways. This book includes teacher inquiry approaches, related tools, and supportive resources for parents in grades Pre-K though 12. Teachers’ inquiry findings on their journey towards being "in the know" about parents and mathematics, along with their responsive action steps, are shared to help guide the reader’s use of inquiry for knowing and supporting parents with mathematics. Some key additional features of this book include:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Support for both individual and collective teacher inquiry＜/li＞ ＜li＞Resources for supporting parents through the grades＜/li＞ ＜li＞Online teacher inquiry resources＜/li＞ ＜li＞Anchor tasks for developing parents’ knowledge of mathematics content, and ways of supporting children’s understandings of that content＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This six-volume set of LNCS 14187, 14188, 14189, 14190, 14191 and 14192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in San Jos?, CA, USA, in August 2023. The 53 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 316 submissions, and are presented with 101 poster presentations.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The papers are organized into the following topical sections: Graphics Recognition, Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Document Analysis and Recognition.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Asia stands out as the world’s most vibrant region, where rivalries and confrontation coincide with increased economic cooperation and community building. How should we interpret these two dynamics, and what are the implications for U.S. policy? With the support of the MacArthur Foundation, Asahi Shimbun, Joongang Ilbo, and China Times, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) collaborated with Opinion Dynamics Corporation on a survey of strategic elites in eleven Asia Pacific economies. This report presents key findings on the strategic landscape in Asia with respect to questions of power, norms, and regional institutions.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞In Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times, leadership and organizational theory are blended with early 20th Century history to model public leadership that is both monumentally effective and classically ethical. What is leadership? What makes leadership good or bad? To answer these questions, Gerald M. Pops draws on the multi-faceted career of George C. Marshall as an extended case study, focusing on the timely subject of leadership in public service.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The dominating traits of Marshall's career were his character, virtues, and ethical practices in two world wars, his efforts to keep the peace and promote economic recovery following World War II, his style of management, and his approach to international diplomacy and nation-building. Pops shows how Marshall's leadership was unique, given the ethical qualities displayed in his character and instilled in the organizations he led. All of these are examined in the context of his long career, and related to an abundant body of leadership theory, in order to successfully present Marshall as an effective public leader not only of the military and political realms, but of business and society as well. This makes the book ideal for students and scholars in the fields of political science, public administration, and the burgeoning field of leadership studies. It is also a fascinating read for all those with a love of twentieth century and military history.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞The 10-volume set LNCS 14254-14263 constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2023, which took place in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, during September 26?29, 2023.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 426 full papers, 9 short papers and 9 abstract papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 947 submissions. ICANN is a dual-track conference, featuring tracks in brain inspired computing on the one hand, and machine learning on the other, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Christopher Nolan’s caped crusader trilogyーBatman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Risesーis considered by many to be one of the finest translations of comic book characters to the big screen. The second film in the series, The Dark Knight, was both a critical and commercial success, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker. The scoreーby Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer and eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howardーalso received accolades, including a Grammy. Intricately interwoven with the sound designーand incorporating Mel Wesson’s ground-breaking ambient music design, ーZimmer’s and Howard’s music gives the film an added layer of ominous tones that makes palpable the menace facing Gotham City.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s The Dark Knight: A Film Score Guide, Vasco Hexel delves into the composers’ backgrounds to reveal the many facets of meaning in the highs and lows of the score. This book also highlights the working methods of Zimmer and Howard and how they collaborated with each other and the filmmaking team to create such a memorable soundtrack.＜/p＞ ＜p＞By drawing on unprecedented access to some of the key creators of the film, the author provides unique insights into the score’s composition. Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s The Dark Knight: A Film Score Guide will be of interest to cinema and music scholars, as well as fans of both composers.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2021, held virtually in July 2021.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 18 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. DIMVA serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in intrusion detection, malware detection, and vulnerability assessment. Each year, DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Chapter “SPECULARIZER: Detecting Speculative Execution Attacks via Performance Tracing” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society sector. This collection has chapters on the Freedom from Debt Coalition's campaign on debt relief, the Stop-the-New-Round Coalition's advocacy to change international trade rules and barriers, the global taxation initiative as embodied in Tobin tax advocacy in the country, the Transparency and Accountability Network's anti-corruption effort, and the Philippine Fair Trade Forum's enterprise on fair trade. Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics is the first work of its kind to focus on five global civil society movements in the Philippines and their responses to the inequities of neoliberal globalization. Northern scholars have acknowledged the persistent absence of the South in research on activism around global issues, and this book can help fill this gap. Using political process theory as a framework, the book traces the emergence, development and diffusion of these social movements in the Philippines. Globalization is taken as the environment in which they operate to highlight the role of increased interdependence and internationalization, and the predominance of a particular ideology in the dynamics of contention.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2022, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2022. The 12 full papers together with 2 short papers that were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions are presented in this volume with 3 full-length papers associated with invited/anniversary talks. The papers focus on topics such as modelling, design and analysis of timed computational systems. The conference aims in real-time issues in hardware design, performance analysis, real-time software, scheduling, semantics and verification of real-timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Collaborative Land Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning discusses the less-regulatory approaches to land use management that have emerged over the past 35 years, analyzing the collective value of such place-based planning approaches as land trusts, open-space ballot measures, watershed conservancies, ecoregional plans, and smart-growth initiatives. Collaborative Land Use Management appraises these trends from physical, social, economic, civic, and environmental justice perspectives. Mason seeks to answer such questions as:＜/p＞ ＜p＞・ What are the environmental justice implications of smart-growth efforts?＜br /＞ ・ How is the property-rights movement affecting collaborative planning?＜br /＞ ・ What is the significance of newly created planning regions?＜br /＞ ・ What do these approaches mean in the larger context of the future of the American landscape?＜br /＞ ・ How do we begin to evaluate and assess these efforts?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Robert Mason pulls together a wide array of land-use planning initiatives into a synthetic and critical story. Incorporating many insightful case studies, Collaborative Land-Use Management is intended for planners, practitioners, policy-makers, geographers, and students with interests in environment and landscape.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Timor-Leste: The History and Development of Asia’s Newest Nation is a study of how a small Asia-Pacific nation has emerged from protracted conflict and successfully navigated a path to durable peace and sustainable development. Despite early setbacks, Timor-Leste has made an amazing turnaround and today finds itself in a new era in which it will certainly continue its advance toward the goal of long-term stability and prosperity, leaving permanently behind the past that was once marked by a descending spiral of destruction.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Yet, a number of development challenges lie ahead for Timor-Leste, particularly in strengthening human, institutional, and infrastructural capacities in the short to medium term, and in transforming the national economy from oil-based to more diversified and better balanced in the longer run. Other countries may draw valuable lessons from Timor-Leste’s experience, especially those that are emerging from as well as are currently affected by conflict and instability. Such lessons would center on the questions such as management of natural resources, empowerment of the vulnerable, implementation of transparent and accountable governance, advancement of women, and mobilization of civil society and the public in general for democratization and the national development process.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞Book Award of the Parapsychological Association,2017＜br /＞ Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2017 (Spiritual)＜br /＞ First Place, Nautilus Book Awards 2017 (Science, Cosmology and Expanding Consciousness)＜br /＞ First Place, International Excellence Mind, Body Spirit Book Awards, 2017 (Human Consciousness)＜br /＞ Bronze Medal, Feathered Quill Book Awards, 2017 (Best Religious/Spiritual)＜br /＞ First Place, Great Northwest Book Festival, 2017 (Spiritual Books)＜br /＞ First Place, New England Book Festival, 2016 (Spiritual Books)＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a neuroscientist, Marjorie Woollacott had no doubts that the brain was a purely physical entity controlled by chemicals and electrical pulses. When she experimented with meditation for the first time, however, her entire world changed. Woollacott’s journey through years of meditation has made her question the reality she built her career upon and has forced her to ask what human consciousness really is. Infinite Awareness pairs Woollacott’s research as a neuroscientist with her self-revelations about the mind’s spiritual power. Between the scientific and spiritual worlds, she breaks open the definition of human consciousness to investigate the existence of a non-physical and infinitely powerful mind.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2021, held in Strasbourg, France, in June/July 2021.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 14 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The book also contains four invited contributions in full paper length.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The research part of this volume is divided in five different sections. First, "Theory" contains compiled works that discuss advances on theoretical aspects of FCA. Second, the section "Rules" consists of contributions devoted to implications and association rules. The third section "Methods and Applications" is composed of results that are concerned with new algorithms and their applications. "Exploration and Visualization" introduces different approaches to data exploration.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞The 4-volumes set of LNCS 13529, 13530, 13531, and 13532 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2022, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2022.＜br /＞ The total of 255 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 561 submissions. ICANN 2022 is a dual-track conference featuring tracks in brain inspired computing and machine learning and artificial neural networks, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Chapter “Sim-to-Real Neural Learning with Domain Randomisation for Humanoid Robot Grasping ” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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＜p＞The 4-volumes set of LNCS 13529, 13530, 13531, and 13532 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2022, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2022.＜br /＞ The total of 255 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 561 submissions. ICANN 2022 is a dual-track conference featuring tracks in brain inspired computing and machine learning and artificial neural networks, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Chapter “Sim-to-Real Neural Learning with Domain Randomisation for Humanoid Robot Grasping ” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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