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Perspectives on women’s higher education leadership from around the world
At this time in world history, numerous scholars have emphasized the importance of having greater diversity in leadership, and specifically having greater representation by women in leadership. In particular, providing women with greater access to higher education—and having role models for women in higher education leadership—has a beneficial ripple effect, given that postsecondary institu…
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- 9783038972648
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- 170 p.; 22 cm.
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- 301 PER p
Debating European citizenship
This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and soc…
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- 9783319899053
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- xviii, 313p. : ill.
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- 323.6094 DEB d
The Transformational potential of higher education inclusion: biographical tr…
In the field of higher education research, one of the most fascinating observations is the consistent and permanent expansion of higher education systems worldwide since the end of the Second World War. Undoubtedly, the predominant approach to address these developments has been through quantitative analysis, as well as international comparisons. The following work examines the particularities …
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- 9783863953102
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- 350p.: ill.
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- 378.87 HUM t
The social Life of anti-terrorism laws
This book addresses two developments in the conceptualisation of citizenship that arise from the »war on terror«, namely the re-culturalisation of membership in a polity and the re-moralisation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in which the trans-nationalisation of the »war on terror« has affected notions of »the dangerous other« in different p…
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- 9783899429640
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- 341.67 SOS t
Socio-environmental dynamics along the historical silk road
This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a …
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- 9783030007287
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- xxvi, 525p. : ill.
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- 304.2 SOC s
Sonic skills : listening for knowledge in science, medicine and engineering (…
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But …
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- 9781137598295
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- ix, 174p. ill.
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- 501.4 BIJ s
Data-driven policy impact evaluation : how access to microdata is transformin…
In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts from academia, national statistics offices and various research centers present modern econometric methods for an efficient data-driven policy evaluation and monitoring, assess …
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- 9783319784618
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- xii, 346p. : ill.
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- 320.6 DAT d
The everyday life of an algorithm
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding for…
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- 9783030005788
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- ix, 151p. : ill.
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- 303.483 NEY e
Principles of security and trust : 8th International Conference, POST 2019, h…
This volume contains the papers presented a t POST 2019, the 8th Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, held April 11, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic, as part of ETAPS. Principles of Security and Trust is a broad forum related to all theoretical and foundational aspects of security and trust, and thus welcomes papers of many kinds: new theoretical results, practical applications of ex…
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- 9783030171384
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- ix, 248p. : ill.
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- 005.8 PRI p
Foundations of software science and computation structures : 22nd internation…
This volume contains the papers presented at the 22nd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS), which took place in Prague during April 8– 11, 2019 . The conference is dedicated to foundational research with a clear significance for software science. It brings together research on theories and methods to support the analysis, integration…
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- 9783030171278
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- xv, 542p. : ill.
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