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Politics of (dis) integration
This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their inclusion or participation. This affects individual lives as well as social cohesion. The book highlights the variety of ways in which integration and disintegration are related t…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030250898
- Collation
- xiv, 217p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.8 POL p
Security infrastructure technology for integrated utilization of big data : a…
This open access book describes the technologies needed to construct a secure big data infrastructure that connects data owners, analytical institutions, and user institutions in a circle of trust. It begins by discussing the most relevant technical issues involved in creating safe and privacy-preserving big data distribution platforms, and especially focuses on cryptographic primitives and pri…
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- 9789811536540
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- ix, 166p. : ill.
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- -
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- 005.8 SEC s
Human and organisational factors : practices and strategies for a changing world
This open access book addresses several questions regarding the implementation of human and organisational factors (HOF) so that recent improvements in industrial safety can be built upon. It addresses sources of frustration in senior management with high expectations of operational recommendations and disquiet on the part of HOF specialists struggling to have an impact on high-level decision m…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030256395
- Collation
- viii, 138p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 620.86 HUM h
Politics of security: British and West German protest movements and the early…
The Politics of Security tells the story of how people experienced the cold war as a war. It is about the impact of the cold war on political cultures. This crucial issue is often forgotten in historical memory. In particular, the book follows British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons activists in their attempts to campaign for and create security after the destruction of the Second World Wa…
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- First edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780199681228
- Collation
- xiv, 342 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
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- Oxford historical monographs
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- 322.4094109045 NEH p
Open Source Systems : Towards Robust Practices
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2017, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in May 2017. The 16 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS), incl…
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- 9783319577357
- Collation
- XIV, 220 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 005.3 OPE o
Performing citizenship: bodies, agencies, limitations
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319975023
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- xii, 318p.: ill
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- -
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- 306.484 HIL p
Enabling things to talk : designing IoT solutions with the IoT architectural …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging network superstructure that will connect physical resources and actual users. It will support an ecosystem of smart applications and services bringing hyper-connectivity to our society by using augmented and rich interfaces. Whereas in the beginning IoT referred to the advent of barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), which helped to auto…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783642404030
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- x, 349p. : ill.
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- -
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- 004.678 ENA e
Advances in energy system optimization : proceedings of the first Internation…
The papers presented in this open access book address diverse challenges in decarbonizing energy systems, ranging from operational to investment planning problems, from market economics to technical and environmental considerations, from distribution grids to transmission grids, and from theoretical considerations to data provision concerns and applied case studies. While most papers have a cle…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030321574
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- viii, 178p. : ill.
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- -
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- 621.319 ADV a
Research methods in legal translation and interpreting: crossing methodologic…
The field of legal translation and interpreting has strongly expanded over recent years. As it has developed into an independent branch of Translation Studies, this book advocates fora substantiated discussion of methods and methodology, as well as knowledge about the variety of approaches actually applied in the field. It is argued that, complex and multifaceted as it is, legal translation cal…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781351031226
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- 1 online resource.
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- Law, language and communication
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- 418.0334 BIE r
Of Gods and Books : Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Cultu…
India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheless, many topics concerning the study of Indian manuscript cultures still remain to receive systematic examination. Of Gods and Books pays attention to one of these topics - the use of manuscripts as ritualistic tools. Literary sources deal quite ex…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110478815
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- XI, 417 p.
- Series Title
- Studies in Manuscript Cultures
- Call Number
- 294.592 DES g
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