Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change interacts with changing economic landscapes, social distinctions and political realities. A variety of drivers contribute to demographic change in the various regions and countrie…
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Public encounters can be viewed as the communicative 'in-between' in which citizens and street-level bureaucrats define the situation in an orientation towards each other (Bartels 2013). Even although at first glance the interaction may seem highly unequal in terms of status and the ability of street-level bureaucrats to determine access to public services, citizens can strategically influence …
The biochemical models describing complex and dynamic metabolic systems are typically multi-parametric and non-linear, thus the identification of their parameters requires nonlinear regression analysis of the experimental data. The stochastic nature of the experimental samples poses the necessity to estimate not only the values fitting best to the model, but also the distribution of the paramet…
The Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity examines the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of international peace and security. Acknowledging that the very notion of peace and security has become more complex, the volume seeks to determine which questions of cybersecurity are indeed of relevance for international peace and se…
This study investigates the effect of different packaging methods—namely, air packaging (AP), vacuum packaging (VP), and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP)—on the protein oxidation and degradation of grouper (Epinephelus coioides) fillets during refrigerated storage
Makalah ini menyajikan refleksi mendalam dari salah satu tokoh hukum paling berpengaruh di Afrika Selatan, Dikgang Moseneke, mengenai kondisi dan tantangan yang dihadapi oleh tatanan konstitusional pasca-apartheid. Sebagai seorang praktisi hukum dan hakim, Moseneke menelaah ketegangan yang muncul antara cita-cita luhur Konstitusi 1996 dengan realitas politik dan sosial yang bergejolak di negara…
"Kunci" Khamsa ini terdiri dari tiga belas esai oleh para sarjana terkemuka di bidang Studi Persia, masing-masing berfokus pada berbagai aspek Khamsa, yang merupakan kumpulan lima puisi panjang yang ditulis oleh penyair Persia Nizami dari Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) tinggal dan bekerja di Ganja di Azerbaijan saat ini. Dia secara luas diakui sebagai salah satu penyair utama Persia Abad Pertengahan…
Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the subjective wellbeing of their citizens and to use it for policy evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a country were to move from using GDP to using subjective wellbeing as the primary metric for measuring economic and societal progress? Would policy priorities change? Would we continue to care about economic growth? Wh…
This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the Global South as a place of origin, transit, and destination. Popular media, government pronouncements, and much of the global research discourse continue to be oriented towards migration from the G…