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Robots in Care and Everyday Life
This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians and a related population survey. The focus is on trust in robotic assistance, human willingness to use this assistance, and the expected personal well-being in human-robot inte…
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- 978-3-031-11447-2
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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- IX, 130
Firm Competitive Advantage Through Relationship Management: A Theory for Succ…
Relationship management (RM) is an essential part of business, but its success as a business model can be hard to measure, with some firms embracing a model that is truly relationship-orientated, while others claim to be relationship-orientated but in fact prefer transactional short-term gain. This open access book aims to develop a mid-range theory of relationship management, examining truly…
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- 978-3-030-67338-3
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50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reco…
This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It reflects on the identity-building role of heritage, on multidimensional conflicts and the destruction of heritage, and considers conflict-solving strategies …
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- 978-3-031-05660-4
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- Heritage Studies
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- XL, 504
The Impact of Individual Expertise and Public Information on Group Decision-M…
In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information regarding change in behavior and strategy adaption. Identifying non-routine problem-solving experts by efficient online assessments could lead to less volatile system performan…
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- 978-3-658-33139-9
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Doing Indefinite Time
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment, such as ‘adaptation’…
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- 978-3-031-12590-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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- XIII, 353
Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa
Vera Roos is Research Professor in the Ageing and Generational Dynamics programme in the Optentia Research Unit (AGenDA) at the North-West University, and an Affiliate Research Fellow of the Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford. As a socio-gerontologist, she focuses on relational experiences and, from a community psychology perspective, on the contributions of older indivi…
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- 978-3-030-94606-7
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- XXII, 257
Italian National Forest Inventory—Methods and Results of the Third Survey
This open access book deals with the methods and the results of the third Italian national forest inventory (INFC2015). Arma dei Carabinieri is entrusted with the realisation of the National Forest Inventory and with the decisions about the aims of the survey and data treatment. National forest inventories produce statistically based information on forests over country areas. Such information i…
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- 978-3-030-98678-0
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- Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
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- XXXII, 576
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay nei…
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- 978-3-030-66073-4
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China and the World in a Changing Context
Dr. Wang Huiyao is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG). He has been appointed as Counselor to China’s State Council and is a thought leader on globalization and global governance. He is also the Dean of Development Studies, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. Dr. Wang pursued hisPhD studies in international business and global manageme…
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- 978-981-16-8086-1
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SDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth
This is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations docum…
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- 978-981-16-9748-7
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