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Ageing in Place in Urban Environments : Critical Perspectives
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other. Both have been identified as dominant demographic trends of the twenty-first century. Cities are where the majority of people of all ages now live and where they will spend their old age. Nevertheless, cities are typical…
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- 9781032134666
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- 218
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- Aging and Society
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(Pushing) the Limits of Neuroplasticity Induced by Adult Language Acquisition
Most adults attempt to learn a second or even third language at some point in their life. Since language exposure is one of the most intense cognitive training regimes one can encounter, it is not surprising that previous research has shown that multilingualism can induce profound change in the brain or ‘neuroplasticity’.What remains unclear is the scope of such adult language learning indu…
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- 9782889456406
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Towards an Ethical Approach to Animals = A Life Learning about Animal Welfare
In two parts, this open access work offers a broad and often unconventional approach to animal ethics, written by a pioneer in animal welfare science and ethics. The author Clive Phillips, Australia's first professor of animal welfare, first describes his life experience and career in the field, which enabled him to provide thoughts and possible solutions to some of the key problems in human-an…
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- 9783031852480
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- XXVII, 246 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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Practices, Perceptions and Prospects for Climate Change Education in Africa
Buku akses terbuka ini menyajikan bab-bab yang telah direview rekan sejawat yang memperkenalkan subjek perubahan iklim dalam sektor pendidikan formal dan informal di Afrika, sebagai kunci untuk membangun kapasitas generasi saat ini dan masa depan untuk menangani isu global yang paling mendesak. Sebuah wawasan tentang praktik, persepsi, dan prospek pendidikan perubahan iklim yang ada di Afrika d…
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- 978-3-031-84081-4
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- online resource ( XVI, 371 Pages)
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- 370.116096 MBA p
Left-Dislocation in Latin : Topics and Syntax in Republican Texts
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In the construction known as left-dislocation, an element appears in a fronted position, before the clause to which it belongs, usually introducing the topic of the sentence. Based on a detailed analysis of syntax, information structure and pragmatic organization, this study explores how left-dislocation is used i…
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- 978-90-04-35746-4
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- x, 253 pp.
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- Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, Volume: 28
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Development and Postdevelopmentalism in Studies on, to, with, for, by Young C…
This open access book directs its attention to a desire for inter- and transdisciplinary, reciprocal collaborations in studies concerning young children. It focuses on the possibilities and obstacles in collaborative forms of inquiry involving those stakeholders and actors whom the research concerns, specifically the participating children. The backdrop of the discussions and theoretical invest…
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- 978-3-031-75150-9
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- XV, 298
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How and Why to Regulate False Political Advertising in Australia
n this book we explain the need for, and then propose a practical solution to the growing problem of false election information in Australia as well as other authentic democracies. Our aim is to help clean up the ‘preference formation’ stage of elections by developing a best practice regime to manage the problem of authorised political disinformation. This, of course, excludes the v…
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- 9789811921230
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- XIII, 170
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A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition
Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor cores may read and write to a single shared address space. For a shared memory machine, the memory consistency model defines the architecturally visible behavior of its memory system. Consistency definitions provide rules ab…
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- 9783031017643
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- XX, 276
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Die Bedeutung von Flüchtling, Geflüchtete_r und Migrant_in : Eine frame-sem…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch besteht aus einer korpusbasierten diskurssemantischen Analyse der differenzkonstruierenden und zum Teil Lebensrollen verkörpernden Ausdrücke Flüchtling, Geflüchtete_r und Migrant_in. Es setzt sich (teils kritisch) mit der Rolle, die Sprache in der medialen und öffentlichen Aushandlung eines soziopolitisch brisanten Themas spielt, auseinander und zeigt, dass das ling…
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- 9783658367190
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- IX, 137
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- Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung (TPEDF)
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Social Movements in 1980s Sweden
This open access book discusses the emergence and development, and in some cases also the disappearance, of social movements and activism in Sweden during the 1980s. Its aim is to nuance and problematize the image of the 1980s as unilaterally dominated by right-wing politics and neoliberalism, as well as the idea of a conflict-free Scandinavian model. The 1980s have often been described as a pe…
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- 978-3-031-27370-4
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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- XXIII, 249
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