DISCIPLINING INTERDISCIPLINARITY:INTEGRATION AND IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCES FOR …

This book provides collaborative research teams with a systematic approach for addressing complex real-world problems like widespread poverty, global climate change, organised crime, and escalating health care costs. The three core domains are Synthesising disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, Understanding and managing diverse unknowns, and Providing integrated research support for poli…

MEANINGFUL REFORM IN THE WESTERN BALKANS :BETWEEN FORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND INF…

This book contains collection of articles which provide policy implications related to the problem of achieving substantive reform on the basis of harmonising legislation in Western Balkan (WB) countries with the standards of the European Union (EU). While WB states have generally been successful in adopting legal reforms that make up a part of EU conditionality, many laws remain unenforced, am…

CHINA :SURPASSING THE "MIDDLE INCOME TRAP"

This open access book explores one of the most fiercely debated issues in China: if and how China will surpass the middle income trap that has plagued many developing countries for years. This book gives readers a clear picture of China today and acts as a reference for other developing countries. China is facing many setbacks and experiencing an economic slowdown in recent years due to some…

PARIWISATA SUPER PRIORITAS, PERAN INSTITUSI, DAN TRANSPORTASI

Pariwisata adalah sektor yang semakin penting bagi bangsa Indonesia. Potensinya luar biasa: kondisi alamnya, seni budayanya, kulinernya, produk-produk kreatifnya, dan hospitality manusianya. Dari tahun ke tahun sumbangan devisa sektor pariwisata terus meningkat, perannya terhadap produk domestik bruto secara nasional semakin signifikan. Selain menyumbang devisa kepada negara, pariwisata juga me…

MISINFORMATION POLICY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA :FROM LAWS AND REGULATIONS TO MED…

Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa is a single volume containing two research reports by eight authors examining policy towards misinformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume first examines the teaching of ‘media literacy’ in state-run schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries as of mid-2020, as relates to misinformation. It explains the limited elements of media and informa…

DATA RIGHTS LAW 3.0 :THE LEGISLATIVE PROSPECT

With a global view and a vision of our digital future, we should move forward with an understanding of data rights legislation at pace. The earlier we set the value norms around data in this digital long distance race, the more likely we will grasp the opportunities therein and embrace a future of commonly understood values. With a view to the future, the branch of Chinese law that is most like…

BLACK EGGS :POEMS

Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume in…

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE MATTERS

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledg…

MANAGING RISK AND INFORMATION SECURITY :PROTECT TO ENABLE

Security and first-person shooter video games have one obvious thing in common: if you’re not continuously moving, you’re dead. In this second edition of Managing Risk and Information Security , Malcolm Harkins helps us move our thinking into areas of risk that have become more prominent over the last several years. Because there is so much new content in this edition, I will focus on …

FASHION MEDIA AND SUSTAINABILITY :ENCOURAGING ETHICAL CONSUMPTION VIA JOURNAL…

ashion is among the biggest polluters, yet the media still promote throwaway fast fashion. The growing fashion public relations industry encourages and enables this media coverage. This policy brief identifies patterns in the way journalists and influencers cover fashion which contribute to unsustainable buying behaviours. Recent research recommends practical steps to improve media coverage to …

THE ORIGIN AND THE EVOLUTION OF FIRMS :INFORMATION AS A DRIVING FORCE

The firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's theory of evolution clearly demonstrated that evolution involved increasing organization. As we began to explore the molecular basis of life and its evolution, it became equally …

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN'S HEALTH IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on sex-based discrimination; however, in investigations of violence, one aspect has been overlooked: violence may severely affect women's health and access to reproductive health, …

SOUTHEAST ASIAN ANTHROPOLOGIES:NATIONAL TRADITIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES

Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. This book makes visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists with decades of experience in the intellectual traditions and institutions that have taken root in the region. Three overlapping issues are addressed in these pages. Fi…

PANDORA’S BOX:ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE COMPARISON OF MEDICAL BELIEFS

In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do beliefs about illness in different societies influence their members’ ability to heal? Despite the advances of Western medicine, what can it learn from non-Western societies that consider sickness and curing to be as much a matter of social relati…

PYNCHON AND PHILOSOPHY:WITTGENSTEIN, FOUCAULT AND ADORNO

The writings of Thomas Pynchon have spawned more critical commentary than almost any other American author of the last fifty years. Pynchon’s texts are perhaps most famed for their ‘difficulty and apparent unfriendliness’, as works that require, as Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale put it, ‘a collective enterprise of reading wherein none of us could succeed without the hel…

ROMANO DEL NORD. TEORIA E PRASSI DEL PROGETTO DI ARCHITETTURA

Romano Del Nord has been a point of reference for Architectural Technology and a protagonist in academic research and the realization of building programs. Meditating on his work brings out the relationship between research, cultural and social commitment and realization skills that distinguished his mindset and his way of acting. The book offers a reasoned rereading of his writings, drawn from…

KINGDOM OF NOKIA :HOW A NATION SERVED THE NEEDS OF ONE COMPANY

Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in Finland. Through its success and strong lobbying, the company managed to capture the attention of Finnish…

MICROSCALE TESTING IN AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY :ADVANCES, TECHNIQUES, AND PRACTICE

Bioassays are among the ecotoxicologist's most effective weapons in the evaluation of water quality and the assessment of ecological impacts of effluents, chemicals, discharges, and emissions on the aquatic environment. Information on these assessment aids is needed throughout the international scientific and environmental management community. This comprehensive reference provides an excellent…

FAMILIAR STRANGERS :A HISTORY OF MUSLIMS IN NORTHWEST CHINA

The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptions of "self" and "other" and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenacious…

INVISIBLE SEARCH AND ONLINE SEARCH ENGINES :THE UBIQUITY OF SEARCH IN EVERYDA…

Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structur…

BEYOND NARRATIVE :EXPLORING NARRATIVE LIMINALITY AND ITS CULTURAL WORK

This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs i…

THE INFORMAL ECONOMY REVISITED :EXAMINING THE PAST, ENVISIONING THE FUTURE

Contributor(s) Chen, Martha (editor) Carré, Françoise (editor) Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers will find this book an invaluable guide to the significance of the in…

ANIMALS IN OUR MIDST :THE CHALLENGES OF CO-EXISTING WITH ANIMALS IN THE ANTHR…

This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offe…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DIGITISING INDUSTRY :APPLICATIONS

This book provides in-depth insights into use cases implementing artificial intelligence (AI) applications at the edge. It covers new ideas, concepts, research, and innovation to enable the development and deployment of AI, the industrial internet of things (IIoT), edge computing, and digital twin technologies in industrial environments. The work is based on the research results and activities …

THE DISASTER OF THE THIRD PRINCESS:ESSAYS ON THE TALE OF GENJI

These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying continuity and form? And how does the closing section of the tale (especially the ten “Uji chapters”) relate to what precedes it? Written over a period of nine years, the e…

INHUMAN NATURE

Gathering into lively conversation scholars in medieval, early modern and object studies, Inhuman Nature explores the activity of the things, forces, and relations that enable, sustain and operate indifferently to us. Enamored by fictions of environmental sovereignty, we too often imagine “human” to be a solitary category of being. This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymme…

MONGOL COURT DRESS, IDENTITY FORMATION, AND GLOBAL EXCHANGE

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange – culturally, politically, and artistically – across Eurasia. The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the inclusion of Mongol motifs in textile, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, among other media. Eiren Shea investigates how a group of newly-conf…

LAND OF NECESSITY :CONSUMER CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDERLANDS

Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In Land of Necessity, historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational and of scarcity and abundance in the region split by the 1,969-mile boundary line dividing Mexico and the United States. This richly illustrated volume, with more than 100 i…

SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN SEKOLAH SADAR LALU LINTAS DENGAN METODE TOPSIS

Kecelakaan berdasarkan tingkat pendidikan yang menjadi korban tertinggi yaitu SLTA sebanyak 80.641 orang, dimana menunjukan tingkat pemahaman pengguna jalan masih rendah. Sekolah berperan dalam meningkatkan pemahaman kesadaran lalu lintas melalui beberapa progam kegiatan dan pembelajaran. Pihak sekolah rata-rata kurang peduli terhadap kesadaran berlalu lintas. Strategi untuk meningkatkan pemaha…

THE TERRITORY OF JAPAN :ITS HISTORY AND LEGAL BASIS

This Open Access book carefully examines the legal and historical bases of the territory of Japan as a modern State from the Meiji period to 2002. A new preface summarizes key developments in the situation up through 2022. Japan’s current territory is stipulated by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) and the Treaty of Peace with Japan (1951); it includes the Northern Territories, the Senkaku Is…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ONCOLOGY DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT

There exists a profound conflict at the heart of oncology drug development. The efficiency of the drug development process is falling, leading to higher costs per approved drug, at the same time personalised medicine is limiting the target market of each new medicine. Even as the global economic burden of cancer increases, the current paradigm in drug development is unsustainable. In this book,…

PENYULUHAN KESELAMATAN LALU LINTAS DAN ANGKUTAN JALAN

Lalu lintas dan angkutan jalan adalah satu kesatuan sistem yang terdiri atas lalu lintas, angkutan jalan, jaringan lalu lintas dan angkutan jalan, prasarana lalu lintas dan angkutan jalan, kendaraan, pengemudi, pengguna jalan, serta pengelolaannya. Lalu lintas adalah gerak kendaraan dan orang di ruang lalu lintas(Pemerintah Republik Indonesia, 2021). Keamanan dan keselamatan tentang lalu lintas…

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a…

PUBLIC POLICY AND RESEARCH IN AFRICA

This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions…

SOLDIERS' STORIES :MILITARY WOMEN IN CINEMA AND TELEVISION SINCE WORLD WAR II

From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers’ Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how…

AI IN THE AGE OF CYBER-DISORDER :ACTORS, TRENDS, AND PROSPECTS

The rise of Artificial Intelligence applications is accelerating the pace and magnitude of the political, securitarian, and ethical challenges we are now struggling to manage in cyberspace and beyond. So far, the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and cyberspace has been investigated mostly in terms of the effects that AI could have on the digital domain, and thus on our societies. Wh…

WOMAN BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS :DARA RASAMI AND THE MAKING OF MODERN THAILAND

"Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation. Thought of as a ""harem"" by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic an…

THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE :NET POLITICS IN THE ERA OF LE…

After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance ne…

NO TRUCK WITH THE CHILEAN JUNTA!

When lorry drivers in Northampton slapped stickers on their cabs declaring ‘No truck with the Chilean Junta!’ they were doing more than threatening to boycott. They were asserting their own identity as proud unionists and proud internationalists. But what did trade unionists really know of what was happening in Chile? And how could someone else’s oppression become a means to solidify your…

SAFETY CULTURES, SAFETY MODELS :TAKING STOCK AND MOVING FORWARD

The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carr…

UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL NON-PARTICIPATION IN AN EGALITARIAN CONTEXT

This book uses a rich data set, from individuals whose background profiles statistically predict strong cultural non-participation, to explore the most salient lifestyles and symbolic boundaries drawn in these potentially disengaged groups.The book departs from a theoretical framework in which cultural practices and cultural participation in their most visible and tangible form are seen as mani…

ROAD PRICING AND PROVISION :CHANGED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS AHEAD

Road pricing is not a new concept—toll roads have existed in Australia since Governor Macquarie established one from Sydney to Parramatta in 1811—and distance-based charging schemes have been trialled and implemented with varying success overseas. But how would full market reform of roads look in a federation like Australia? In its responses to the 2016 Australian Infrastructure Plan and…

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AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY IN CHINA WHAT EFFECT WTO ACCESSION AND REGIONAL…

China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had profound consequences for the structure of its economy, and there will many more before the full benefits of an open trading regime will be realised. Agriculture and Food Security in China explains the background to China’s WTO accession and links accession to reforms beginning as far back as 1979. The book highlights China�…

ISLAND ENCOUNTERS :TIMOR-LESTE FROM THE OUTSIDE IN

Island Encounters is a narrative of Timor shaped by a journey from the outside in. Incorporating the author’s experiences from more than two decades of involvement with Timor-Leste and, more particularly, the months she spent travelling with her family from west to east in 2018, Palmer traces paths redolent in longing and learning, belonging and bewilderment, courage and conviction to tell of…

SUBJECTS AND ALIENS

Subjects and Aliens confronts the problematic history of belonging in Australia and New Zealand. In both countries, race has often been more important than the law in determining who is considered ‘one of us’. Each chapter in the collection highlights the lived experiences of people who negotiated laws and policies relating to nationality and citizenship rights in twentieth-century Austr…

XINJIANG YEAR ZERO

Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to prevent terrorism, the campaign has since become a wholesale attempt to remould the ways of life of these peoples—an experiment in social…

ROTE-METO COMPARATIVE DICTIONARY

This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions to Proto-Rote-Meto (or a lower node) with supporting evidence from the modern Rote-Meto languages. These reconstructions are accompanied by information on how they relat…

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN WESTERN EUROPE :THEORY, MODELS AND PRACTICE

In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and …

INTERMEDIATE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE

Intermediate Ancient Greek Language is a series of Lessons and Exercises intended for students who have already covered most of an introductory course in the ancient Greek language. It aims to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of the main grammatical constructions of Greek. Further attention is given to grammatical forms to illustrate their functions. In the Lessons, tragedy, come…