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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…
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- 978-981-19-8061-9
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography
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- 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.
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- 978-981-19-3846-7
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- XIV, 213
Empirische Analyse sozialer Probleme
Arbeitslosigkeit, Drogenmissbrauch, Obdachlosigkeit, familiäre Gewalt, Umweltzerstörung, Onlinesucht usw. Keine dieser kollektiven Notlagen – sei sie für die Betroffenen auch noch so bedrückend – erlangt von ‚sich aus‘ öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit und politische Anerkennung. Vielen durchaus kritisierbaren Lebenslagen gelingt dies erst spät oder überhaupt nicht. Warum dies so ist un…
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- 978-3-658-02280-8
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- 243
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.
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- 978-3-031-06776-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
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- XXVII, 377
Effective Statistical Learning Methods for Actuaries II
This book summarizes the state of the art in tree-based methods for insurance: regression trees, random forests and boosting methods. It also exhibits the tools which make it possible to assess the predictive performance of tree-based models. Actuaries need these advanced analytical tools to turn the massive data sets now at their disposal into opportunities.
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- 978-3-030-57556-4
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- Springer Actuarial
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- X, 228
Design for Electromagnetic Compatibility--In a Nutshell
This open access book provides practicing electrical engineers and students a practical – and mathematically sound – introduction to the topic of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). The author enables readers to understand better how to overcome commonly failed EMC tests for radiated emission, radiated immunity, and electrostatic discharge (ESD), while providing concrete EMC design guideli…
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- 978-3-031-14186-7
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- XXVIII, 416
Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees …
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- 978-3-030-67284-3
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- XI, 258
LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe
This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores p…
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- 978-3-031-13508-8
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- Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
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- 978-3-031-13508-8
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.
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-06776-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
- Call Number
- XXVII, 377
English as a Medium of Instruction in Higher Education
This book presents the multiple facets of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education across various academic disciplines, an area that is expected to grow constantly in response to the competitive global higher education market. The studies presented were conducted in various EMI classrooms, with data collected from observing and documenting the teaching activities, and from i…
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- 978-981-10-4645-2
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- English Language Education
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- XIII, 213
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