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Attending [to] Futures
If “design” is the lens through which we glimpse into possible futures, this volume asks: What are the futures we are capable of imagining? As a subject of study, design is enabled and constrained by educational institutions and academic traditions. As a profession it is conditioned by systems of labor. As a creative activity it is shaped by what tools are programmed to do. Authors in this …
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Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Sustainable Cities and Com…
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Sustainable Cities and Communities focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number eleven (SDG#11): making human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Examining family businesses in the Republic of Ireland, Germany, the United States, the Unite…
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Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Responsible Consumption an…
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Responsible Consumption and Production focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number twelve (SDG#12): escaping the trap of excessive output and overconsumption. Examining family businesses in Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, each case study presents a …
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Bile Duct Cancer
Malignant biliary obstruction is very difficult to treat; only 10–20% of the patients are suitable for curative resections. Obstructive jaundice is associated with a pro-inflammatory state, altering the normal physiology and affecting multiple organ systems. So, patients with malignant obstructive jaundice are at increased risk of postoperative complications. Nevertheless, the preoperativ…
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Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment.…
: For a short period in the early 18th century the city of Gdańsk held a notable position as an intersection of scholarship within the Baltic Sea region. Acting as an autonomous state, the commercial metropolis not only became one of the most populous cities in East-Central Europe in the Early Modern times, but also a significant centre for information and communication
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Bildung / Transformation
Kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Umbrüche, die gegenwärtig in allen möglichen Formen stattfinden und sich durch die »Globalisierung« zu vervielfältigen scheinen, stellen eine der großen Herausforderungen für die Sozialwissenschaften dar
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Bilateral Vestibulopathy - Current Knowledge and Future Directions to Improve…
Bilateral vestibulopathy has had several names, paralleling growing numbers of publications and interest in its pathophysiology and treatment. The condition was formerly Dandy syndrome, eponymously associated with neurosurgeon Walter Dandy who worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1918 to 1946. Having developed expertise in vestibular schwannoma surgery, Dandy became interested in vesti…
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Bikol Dictionary
The Bikol language of the Philippines, spoken in the southernmost peninsula of Luzon Island and extending into the island provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate, is presented in this bilingual dictionary. An introduction explains the Bikol alphabet, orthographic representation (including policies adopted in writing Spanish and English loan words), foreign sounds in Bikol, and Bikol phonology.
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Bijective point maps, point-stationarity and characterization of Palm measures
In the theory of stationary spatial point processes, Palm distributions are used to describe the point process seen from one of its points. Such an intrinsic frame of reference is not only interesting for theoretical considerations, but also useful in related fields such as queuing theory and stochastic geometry.
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Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesity
In her first inquiry toward a decelerationist aesthetics, Katherine Behar explores in this essay chapbook the rise of two “big deal” contemporary phenomena, big data and obesity. In both, scale rearticulates the human as a diffuse informational pattern, causing important shifts in political form as well as aesthetic form. Bigness redraws relationships between the singular and the collective.
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