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Sports and Human Rights
Based on a series of themes and case studies, this book aims to illustrate the impact of sports policies and practices on individuals and their identities, and to analyze the potential solutions offered by International human rights law (IHRL) for these infringements. It bridges the gap between IHRL and sports studies, and will be useful to scholars in both fields, especially those unfamiliar w…
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- 9783031564529
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Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains
This open access book documents and analyses the various interventions – legal, political, and even artistic – that followed the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2012. It illuminates the different substantive and procedural aspects of the legal proceedings and negotiations between the various local and transnational actors implicated in the Ali Enterprises fire, as well…
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- 9783030738358
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Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights
This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed from a more human rights-focused angle and a development-policy angle. This allows comparisons between the different approaches bu…
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- 9783030304690
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MARE-WINT
This book provides a holistic, interdisciplinary overview of offshore wind energy, and is a must-read for advanced researchers. Topics, from the design and analysis of future turbines, to the decommissioning of wind farms, are covered. The scope of the work ranges from analytical, numerical and experimental advancements in structural and fluid mechanics, to novel developments in risk, safety & …
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- 9783319390956
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Krankenhaus-Report 2022
Seit Anfang des Jahres 2020 und somit nun seit rund zwei Jahren ist die gesellschaftliche und politische Diskussion und das Handeln auf allen Ebenen stark durch die Herausforderungen der Covid-19-Pandemie geprägt. Seit dem ersten Auftreten hat die Pandemie mit diversen Virusmutationen in mehreren Wellen auch Deutschland erreicht und speziell das Gesundheitswesen sowie die Versorgung im Kra…
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- 9783662646854
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- XXIII, 430
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Das Blaue Buch
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). Bewährt und einfach zu handhaben: praxisorientierte Sammlung von Chemotherapie-Protokollen zur Behandlung von Tumorpatienten mit soliden und hämatologischen Erkrankungen. Wie schon in den Vorauflagen finden sich auf einen Blick Detailinformationen zu Chemotherapie, Begle…
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- 9783662514207
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Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sci…
This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their consequences, mathematical models, the size distribution of wars, and geographical feat…
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- 9783030315894
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Digital Kenya
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic cables in 2009, Digital Kenya examines why the initial entrepreneurial spirit and digital revolu…
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- 9781137578785
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Der Glaube an Big Data
Der Vorgang, bei dem digitale Daten im Zuge der Computerisierung entstehen, gespeichert und manuell oder automatisch ausgewertet werden, entzieht sich der unmittelbaren und vollständigen Beobachtbarkeit durch den Menschen. Es mag zwar in gewissem Grad ein Bewusstsein über vermeintliche Konsequenzen oder Resultate geben, wenn digitale Daten entstehen, gespeichert oder ausgewertet werden. …
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- 9783658363680
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- XXIII, 319
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Terrorist Risk in Urban Outdoor Built Environment
This open access book outlines the latest results in analysing, assessing, and managing terrorist risk in the urban outdoor built environment. In detail, contents refer to the outdoor Open Areas (such as streets, squares, urban parks and other public spaces in our cities) exposed to such violent events considering the physical elements and properties of the built environment and users. PThe bui…
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