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Human Flourishing
This open access book presents a novel multidisciplinary perspective on the importance of human flourishing. The study of the good life or Eudaimonia has been a central concern at least since Aristotelian times. This responds to the common experience that we all seek happiness. Today, we are immersed in a new paradoxical boom, where the pursuit of happiness seems to permeate everything (books, …
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- 978-3-031-09786-7
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- XII, 234
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
This open access book explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four transformational trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state ac…
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- 9783319991061
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- XXV, 334hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Debating ‘Homo Academicus’ in Management and Organization : Ontological A…
In the fields of management and organization, there is an ongoing debate about different ontological assumptions about people in and around organizations, and the dangers of self-fulling prophecies, i.e., the phenomena in which unsubstantiated, unethical, or dysfunctional assumptions about people can lead to adverse practical consequences. This open access book advances this debate, but in a se…
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- 9783031581953
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- XV, 304 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creati…
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- 978-1-137-55833-6
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- XV, 173
Supercomputing Frontiers: 5th Asian Conference, SCFA 2019, Singapore, March 1…
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2019, held in Singapore in March 2019. The 6 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They cover a range of topics including memory fault handling, linear algebra, image processing, heterogeneous computing, resource usage prediction, an…
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- 9783030186456
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- IX, 107
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Supercomputing Frontiers: 6th Asian Conference, SCFA 2020, Singapore, Februar…
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2020, which was planned to be held in February 2020, but unfortunately, the physical conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They cover a range of topics including file systems…
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- 9783030488420
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- IX, 139
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Enhanced Living Environments: Algorithms, Architectures, Platforms, and Systems
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. The concept of Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) refers to the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) that is more related with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Effective ELE solutions require appropriate IC…
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- 9783030107529
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Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book presents a new model of accountability which ensures that public-private partnerships don't erode public accountability. It defines concrete accountability standards for different types of partnerships.
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- 978-0-230-29061-7
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- XIII, 264
The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus
This Open Access book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. It investigates the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality assurance reforms and their dynamic interactions with institutional, national and European policy contexts. The chapters report findings from extensive empirical studies that of…
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- 978-3-030-21142-4
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- Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
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- XVII, 208
Migration, Education and Employment
This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration.…
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- 978-3-031-41919-5
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- Education, Equity, Economy
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- VIII, 203
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