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Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions of Gases and Particles
The oceans and atmosphere interact through various processes, including the transfer of momentum, heat, gases and particles. In this book leading international experts come together to provide a state-of-the-art account of these exchanges and their role in the Earth-system, with particular focus on gases and particles. Chapters in the book cover: i) the ocean-atmosphere exchange of short-lived…
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- 978-3-642-25643-1
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- LI, 315
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- Springer Earth System Sciences (SPRINGEREARTH)
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Capitalism in the Platform Age
This book series offers an outlet for cutting-edge research in alternative, heterodox and pluralist economics. It features scholarly studies on various schools of thought beyond the neo-classical orthodoxy, including Austrian, Post Keynesian, Sraffian, Marxian, Georgist, Institutional-evolutionary, as well as feminist, radical, social, green, and ecological economics. It aims to promote…
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- 9783031491474
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- VI, 371
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AI Ethics in Higher Education: Insights from Africa and Beyond
This open access book tackles the pressing problem of integrating concerns related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics into higher education curriculums aimed at future AI developers in Africa and beyond. For doing so, it analyzes the present and future states of AI ethics education in local computer science and engineering programs. The authors share relevant best practices and use cases fo…
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- 978-3-031-23035-6
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- V, 101
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Human Challenge Studies in Endemic Settings : Ethical and Regulatory Issues
This open access book provides an extensive review of ethical and regulatory issues related to human infection challenge studies, with a particular focus on the expansion of this type of research into endemic settings and/or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Human challenge studies (HCS) involve the intentional infection of research participants, and this type of research is rapidly inc…
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- 978-3-030-41480-1
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- XVII, 134
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Dissecting Discrimination : Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources
This Open-Access-book examines the phenomenon of discrimination using a descriptive approach. Discrimination is omnipresent, whether it is people who discriminate against other people or, more recently, also machines that discriminate against people. The first part of the analysis employs decision theory on discrimination, leading to two fundamental subtypes: taste-based discrimination and stat…
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- 978-3-658-34569-3
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- XI, 234
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- Entscheidungs- und Organisationstheorie (EOT)
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Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology: Women Doing IT for Them…
This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals how women experience gendered stereotypes but also how they bypass, negotiate, and challenge such stereotypes, reconstructing gender-technology relations in the process. Using the example of Norway to illuminate this challenge in Western countries, t…
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- 9789819951871
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- XV, 133
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Ritualisierende Agency in Todesritualen : Eine Untersuchung der Positionierun…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden anhand von ethnographischen Fallbeobachtungen mit 16 Ritualleiter*innen folgende Fragen beantwortet: Wie positionieren sich Leitende von Todesritualen, die ausserhalb einer religiösen Gemeinschaft in der Deutschschweiz stattfinden? Welches Selbstbild vertreten die Ritualleiter*innen? Welche Aufgaben verbinden sie mit ihrer Tätigkeit? Wem sprechen sie Handlung…
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- 978-3-658-43572-1
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- XI, 310
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- Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGSRELIGION)
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Hochschulreformen, Leistungsbewertungen und berufliche Identität von Profess…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein differenziertes Bild der Folgen von „Bologna“, „Exzellenzinitiative“, Drittmittelwettbewerb und „New Public Management“ für die berufliche Identität von Professor*innen gezeichnet. Eine qualitative empirische Studie zeigt, dass die mit diesen Reformen verbundenen Leistungsbewertungen nicht nur Identitätsbedrohungen mit sich bringen müssen, son…
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- 978-3-658-33289-1
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- VII, 386
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- Organization & Public Management (OPM)
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Quartier und Demokratie : Theorie und Praxis lokaler Partizipation zwischen F…
Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Bandes bringen demokratietheoretische Fragestellungen mit partizipatorischen Erfahrungen aus Quartieren zusammen. Charakteristisch für viele partizipative Planungsmodi ist ihr sozialräumlicher Kontext – das Quartier. Über dessen Mehrwert für gelingende Demokratie ist jedoch nur wenig bekannt: Während mit partizipativen Verfahren auf der Quartiersebene ver…
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- 978-3-658-26235-8
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- VIII, 220
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- Quartiersforschung (QF)
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Quantitative Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Devel…
This open access book focuses on how scientific methodologies can help industrial managers, entrepreneurs and policymakers handle the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an efficient and realistic way. It also offers an operative scheme for scientists to overcome their discipline barriers. Is interdisciplinarity an intrinsic research value or is it merely instrumental for handling the increasin…
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- 9783031393112
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- XVI, 187
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