Filter by
AI in Learning: Designing the Future
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is predicted to radically change teaching and learning in both schools and industry causing radical disruption of work. AI can support well-being initiatives and lifelong learning but educational institutions and companies need to take the changing technology into account. Moving towards AI supported by digital tools requires a dramatic shift in the concept of learn…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-09687-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XXV, 344
Niederlassungen führen
Niederlassungen müssen ganzheitlich geführt und gesteuert werden - andernfalls sind Umsetzungslücken oder Governance-Gaps unvermeidlich. Diese äußern sich in mangelnder Strategieumsetzung, Kommunikationsproblemen bis hin zu Skandalen wie Kartellklagen oder Korruptionsfällen. Ganzheitliche Steuerung von Niederlassungen ist eine Governance-Aufgabe, die nicht nur im Pflichtenheft des Boards …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-66203-8
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XIV, 113
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is di…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-08608-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Contributions to Political Science
- Call Number
- IX, 369
Urban and Regional Cooperation and Development
This is an open access book. This book, first of all, introduces the new unveiled Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone with details as a special mode of the regional collaborative development that is committed to be mutually beneficial to both sides with different political and economic systems. China's central authorities have recently issued a masterplan for constructing the Guangdong-M…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-19-8061-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Geography
- Call Number
- IX, 94
Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century
This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ten dialogues in this book were part of the “China and the World” series of online discussions hosted by the Center for China and Glob…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-19-3846-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XIV, 213
Sustainable Qatar
This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-19-7398-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Gulf Studies
- Call Number
- XIII, 380
Trends und Determinanten sozialer Probleme in reichen Ländern
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, warum sich wohlhabende Gesellschaften merklich im Ausmaß sozialer Probleme wie z. B. Kriminalität oder mangelnde Wahlbeteiligung unterscheiden. In einer makrosoziologischen Untersuchung von 40 wohlhabenden Ländern über den Zeitraum 1990 bis 2020 werden neben der im Forschungsfeld dominierenden Spirit-Level-Theorie, welche auf Einkommensungleichhei…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-39865-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- BestMasters
- Call Number
- XIV, 124
Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy. This book draws on more than 260 life hi…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-06776-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
- Call Number
- XXVII, 377
Statistical Foundations of Actuarial Learning and its Applications
This open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, data analysis and statistical model building to forecast insured events that may happen in the future. It presents the mathematical foundations behind these fundamental statistical concepts and how they can be applied in daily actuarial practice. Statistical modeling has…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-12409-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Springer Actuarial
- Call Number
- XII, 605
The Geology of Kuwait
This open access book contains a set of chapters covering all aspects of geosciences related to Kuwait and adjacent regions, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states. It covers basic information about the geology including a wide range of geoscientific disciplines such as marine geology, structural geology, hydrogeology and geophysics related to the region. This book is aimed at re…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-16727-0
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Regional Geology Reviews
- Call Number
- XII, 242
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography