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Exploring the Narratives and Agency of Children with Migrant Backgrounds with…
This edited volume presents the results of a European research project – ‘CHILD-UP’ (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation), which analyses the hybrid integration of children with migration backgrounds into schools across Europe. Using qualitative data and theoretical foundations obtained through interviews and focus groups, the …
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Making Change Happen : Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Abo…
This book is a unique window into a dynamic time in the politics and history of Australia. The two decades from 1970 to the Bicentennial in 1988 saw the emergence of a new landscape in Australian Indigenous politics. There were struggles, triumphs and defeats around land rights, community control of organisations, national coalitions and the international movement for Indigenous rights. The cha…
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- 9781921666742
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- 448p
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- 303.484
Placing the public in public health in post-war Britain, 1948–2012
This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health s…
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- 9783030186852
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- viii, 141 p: ill.
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- 362.109
Robotics, Vision and Control
Robotic vision, the combination of robotics and computer vision, involves the application of computer algorithms to data acquired from sensors. The research community has developed a large body of such algorithms but for a newcomer to the field this can be quite daunting. For over 20 years the author has maintained two open-source MATLAB® Toolboxes, one for robotics and one for vision. They pr…
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- 978-3-319-54413-7
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- Kedokteran/Robotik
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- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Social Robotics
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2011, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2011. The 23 revised full papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social interaction with robots; nonverbal interaction with s…
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- 978-3-642-25504-5
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- Kedokteran/Robotik
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Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities
Drawing on diverse examples from literature, film, memoirs, and popular culture, Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities analyses cultural representations of male infertility. Going beyond the biomedical and sociological towards interdisciplinary cultural studies, this book studies depictions of men’s infertility. It includes fictional representations alongside memoirs, newspaper articles, e…
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Urban Innovation and Upgrading in China Shanty Towns Changing the Rules of D…
By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience of Liaoning province is relatively successful and can be of great significance for developing countries and regions. The issue of slums is a huge challenge in the process of global urbanization. The po…
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Social Media in Northern Chile
Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio’s residents – or Hospiceños – express their feelings of marginalisation that result from living in city far from the na…
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- Why We Post
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- 301 HAY s
Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory
ABSTRACT Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women’s studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory provides a critical analysis of key texts and theories, engaging in a dialogue …
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Social-Media-Marketing kompakt
Dieses Buch verdeutlicht, dass Social-Media-Marketing heute zu einem integralen Bestandteil der Online-Kommunikation geworden ist. Doch welche Ziele lassen sich damit erreichen? Welche Plattformen bieten welche Möglichkeiten? Wie kann der Erfolg einer Social-Media-Kampagne gemessen werden? Von welchen Plattformen sollte man die Finger lassen? Welche Erfolgsfaktoren zählen? Welche Social-Media…
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- 978-3-658-33866-4
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- Marketing
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