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Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice
When conducting the research that lies behind the writing of this book, and during its substantive writing, Paul Weller was part-time Research Fellow in Religion and Society and Associate Director (UK) of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, Regent’s Park College, a Baptist Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, where he is an Associate Member of the Faculty of T…
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- 9783030973636
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Contemporary Housing Struggles
We would like to dedicate this book to Professor Chris Pickvance, who passed away in autumn of 2021. As an urban sociologist and one of the first scholars to lead a comparative research project on housing movements in Central and Eastern Europe just after 1989, Chris has been a great inspiration for our work. He also generously commented on our draft manuscript as part of our advisory …
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- 9783030974053
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- IX, 243
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Theory and Practice of Sociosensitive and Socioactive Systems
We would like to thank our project executing agency VDI/VDE-IT and especially Constantin von Dewitz for their constructive collaboration, as well as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for its support, especially Katrin Nostadt and Annette Eickmeyer-Hehn. Cornelius Höller participated in the project as a substitute for parental leave, after previously also contributing as an …
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- 9783658369460
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- XV, 166
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Personalentwicklung in Schulen als Führungsaufgabe
Im Zuge der schrittweisen Verlagerung von Gestaltungsspielräumen von der Systemebene auf die operative Ebene (Altrichter und Maag Merki 2010; Füssel und Leschinsky 2008) sind auch Aufgaben der schulischen Personalentwicklung in den Verantwortungsbereich der Schulen übergegangen (Buhren und Rolff 2002; Meetz 2007; Brauckmann und Eder 2019). Dienstvorgesetztenfunktion und Weisungsbefugni…
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- 9783658369255
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- XII, 377
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The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism
This volume, The Forum of Federations Handbook on Fiscal Federalism, we consider to be an important contribution to the study of federalism. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the globe, it seeks to broaden and update current understandings of the state of fiscal federalism within 11 country case studies, and by so doing attempts to tease out some extrapolatory l…
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- 9783030972585
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- XXVI, 483
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Handbook of Digital 3D Reconstruction of Historical Architecture
This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of digital 3D reconstruction. It shows in which contexts the first research projects were undertaken and how the resulting 3D models were presented to the public. It sheds light on the institutionalization of 3D reconstruction in research at universities, presentations at conferences, and specialization of architectural companies
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- 9783031433634
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- XV, 204
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How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It
Nigeria, a former British colony, had no name until 1914; the Nigeria of today consisted of diverse ethnic groups scattered across what is the country’s current geographical space. The ethnic groups were not united within a single country or empire in pre-colonial days. In July 1899 the British House of Commons officially approved the name after an article suggesting various names f…
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- 9783030964740
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- XVIII, 240
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Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia
Today, wind powers and solar powers have become the main stream of energies. Everyone, from major electric power utilities to mega capital investors, has entered the renewable energy sector, increasingly and rapidly expanding the mass capital investment projects in the world. It is not rare to find cases of such mega projects developing confrontations with local communities. Since 1990s, th…
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- IX, 117
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From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond
This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can c…
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Reimagining Sustainable Organization
How can we learn to lead and think greener, smarter, and healthier in our daily work? This chapter considers the rise of visions and goals towards more sustainable organization for both business and society. The landmarks of tomorrow seem to be broadly affected by management ideas on sustainability—whether by deep or shallow thinking. What can various sustainability orientations mea…
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