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Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives: The Case of Finland
This open access monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, social networks, healthcare, migration trajectories as well as their use of the internet and social media. Although the book’s empirical focus is Finland, the themes connect the latter to broader geographical scales, reaching from global migration issues to …
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- 978-3-030-68414-3
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Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth…
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
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- 978-3-030-56585-5
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Optimization-Based Energy Management for Multi-energy Maritime Grids
This open access book discusses the energy management for the multi-energy maritime grid, which is the local energy network installed in harbors, ports, ships, ferries, or vessels. The grid consists of generation, storage, and critical loads. It operates either in grid-connected or in islanding modes, under the constraints of both power system and transportation system. With full electrificatio…
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- 978-981-33-6734-0
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Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing III: Proceedings …
This open access book gathers contributions presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2020), held as a web conference on June 2–4, 2020. It reports on cutting-edge topics in product design and manufacturing, such as industrial methods for integrated product and process design; innovative design; and computer-aided design. …
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- 978-3-030-70566-4
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Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons
This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for adult outcomes differ across societies, and whether these differences are shaped by the “context of opportunities” that soc…
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Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
This open access book is a collection of articles based on presentations from the 2020 Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference that gives an overview of conference outcomes. The vision of the conference has been to unite researchers, scientists, physicians and other healthcare professionals, patient advocates, and students from across the world to discuss research advancements, id…
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- 978-3-031-14436-3
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- XVIII, 290
Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia: From Theory to Practice
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the foundation for introducing the mid-space actor typology is established. Mid-space actors as insider-partial mediators are perceived to be vital agents for peace processes in confl…
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- 978-3-030-67758-9
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Wertschöpfung hybrid gestalten
In diesem Open-Access-Buch ist die Digitalisierung von Geschäftsmodellen anhand von Praxisbeispielen beschrieben. Dies umfasst einerseits die Entwicklung digitaler bzw. hybrider Geschäftsmodelle und andererseits die Gestaltung des Umsetzungsprozesses im Unternehmen. Dazu zählen Veränderungen an Strukturen der Aufbau- und Ablauforganisation ebenso wie an Zusammenarbeit, Führung und Kompeten…
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- 978-3-662-65130-8
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- XV, 232
Napoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany: Conquest, Inc…
“Van der Burg presents an innovative transregional study of Napoleonic governance in the often-overlooked northern periphery of the Empire. This book carefully examines the Empire’s administrative structure in the north, focusing on the heterogeneous community of prefects and subprefects as ‘tools of incorporation’, binding the regions to the central state. His rich comparative analysis…
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Recent Advances in Industrial and Applied Mathematics
This open access book contains review papers authored by thirteen plenary invited speakers to the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Valencia, July 15-19, 2019). Written by top-level scientists recognized worldwide, the scientific contributions cover a wide range of cutting-edge topics of industrial and applied mathematics: mathematical modeling, industrial and en…
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