Chapter Swedish Trade and Shipping in the Mediterranean in the 18th Century

This paper analyses the rise of Swedish trade and shipping in the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century. It focuses on three factors that shaped Sweden’s role in the area: foreign policy interest, foreign trade policy (mercantilism), and commodity demand and supply. The foreign policy interest is represented by attempts to build an alliance with the Ottoman Empire against Russia. An outcome…

Chapter Sustainable development goals: classifying European countries through…

Environmental sustainability is one of the main goals of all countries in the world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been proposed by the United Nations in 2015. The purpose of this paper is to explore if and how European countries achievethe goals of environmental sustainability (tracked by the SDGs number 13, 14, and 15). In particular, SDG 13 refers to climate change and its impact…

Chapter Storytelling and Other Skills: Building Employability in Higher Educa…

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Chapter Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Filter Bank Multi‐Carrier (FBMC)‐…

The heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) is most significant as a key technology for future fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. The heterogeneous network consists of randomly macrocell base stations (MBSs) overlaid with femtocell base stations (FBSs). Stochastic geometry has been shown to be a very powerful tool to model, analyze, and design networks with random topologies such as wireless…

Chapter England’s Maritime and Commercial Networks in the Late Middle Ages

This paper, basing its analysis on England’s national customs accounts between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, briefly examines England’s ports as commercial nodes (of which London was the busiest, with Hull, Southampton and Bristol becoming the main regional hubs by the fifteenth century), its shipping (which provided both liner and tramping services and sailed all year round), and…

Chapter Employability and Transitions: Fostering the Future of Young Adult Gr…

Starting from questions inspired by the tremendous changes taking place in the worlds of education and employment, this research focuses on the role of employability in the building of new skills in higher education contexts. This longitudinal survey conducted on a sample of 52 graduates from the Educational Science sector found certain key characteristics in the transitions to the world of wor…

Chapter 5 Doing adult safeguarding with service users and carers

Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work practice but knowledge of how social workers make adult safeguarding decisions is limited. Applying recent sociological and ethnographic research to this area for the first time, this book considers how adult safeguarding practice is developing, with a…

Social networks and resilience in work teams

This chapter explores social networks and resilience in an organizational context, focusing on work teams and their strategies for preparing, managing and learning from adversities. To date, only few studies have considered social networks in relation to the resilience of individuals and teams in organizations.

Applied Artificial Neural Networks

Sejak dipopulerkan kembali pada pertengahan 1980-an, artificial neural networks telah mengalami ledakan penelitian di berbagai bidang. Sementara sejumlah besar penelitian telah dilakukan dalam artificial neural networks itu sendiri—dalam hal pelatihan, topologi, tipe, dll.- sejumlah pekerjaan serupa telah menguji penerapannya pada berbagai masalah dunia nyata. Masalah seperti itu biasanya su…

Applications of Self-Organizing Maps

Peta yang mengatur dirinya sendiri, pertama kali dijelaskan oleh ilmuwan Finlandia Teuvo Kohonen, dapat diterapkan pada berbagai bidang. Buku ini membahas tentang penerapan seperti itu, yaitu bagaimana peta pengorganisasian mandiri asli serta varian dan perluasannya dapat diterapkan di berbagai bidang. Dalam empat belas bab, berbagai aplikasi semacam itu dibahas. Untuk beberapa nama, aplikasi i…