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Overview: Provides insights into the challenges and opportunities of decolonising design education.Challenges the dominant capitalist narrative and centres on the needs of African communities.Explores new model.This book responds to the question "Is it time to reimagine design education in Africa and decolonise our creative future?" The proposed volume is designed to provide a source of inspiration to readers in imagining their own futures within fields of Creative industries such as performative art, architecture design, industrial design, media production, drawing and illustration, filmmakin

Overview: Studies the built environment as a hermeneutical phenomenon.Reconstructs the relationship between people and their build environment.Provides historical and philosophical perspectives on architectureThis monograph brings three branches of philosophy together: epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.  It assesses the built environment as a case study from a phenomenological perspective. Under the notion of phenomenology, this study understands the built environment as the hermeneutical phenomenon of being in the life-world that is experienced by people within the socio-cultural and histor

Overview: A unique contribution to the exploration of a new perspective in the study of well-being.Focuses on individual and collective definitions of the ‘good life‘ in the Bolivian plateau and explores potent.This volume is a unique contribution to the exploration of a new perspective in the study of well-being, which tries to overcome the quantification bias by creating an account of ‘the good life’ in a specific place. Rather than numbers, this research focuses on local narratives, emphasising the urgent need to include a wider range of methodological approaches when engaging with well-bei

Overview: Covers the role of technology in future of higher education.Includes relevant case study examples by making use of robust methods to solve real-world problems.Addresses the malicious application of AI.This book aims to explore the next generation of online learning challenges including the security and privacy issues of digital transformation strategies that is required in teaching and learning. Also, what efforts does the industry need to invest in changing mind-sets and behaviours of both students and faculty members in adoption of virtual and blended learning?.The book provides a

Overview: This book provides new and exceptional interpretations in regard to the post-World War 2 history of the East-West conflict and calls for interdisciplinary approaches in analyzing international relations. The systematic and political processes are undoing the division of Europe and restoring an ‘organically‘ interdependent continent. The events of 1989 in Eastern Europe are but a harbinger of a new security order in Europe and, for the first time since the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 Europe tries to look beyond state-centered concepts of security.978-1-349-21352-8978-1-349-21350-4

Overview: Authors include pioneers and experts in the world of Academic Global Surgery.This book provides a convenient and portable catalogue of current knowledge.This book is linked with the ongoing Associatio.This seventh book in the series of Success in Academic Surgery look to sustain the field and facilitate the next generation of leaders in Academic Global Surgery. It brings together a catalogue of current knowledge, needs, and pathways to a career in the field. .Academic Global Surgery involves educational, research and clinical collaborations between academic humanitarian surgeons in h

Overview: Eine neue Lobbyingstrategie in Deutschland?Astroturf: Der aus dem Englischen stammenden Begriff für Kunstrasen bezeichnet Initiativen, die nur scheinbar auf basispolitischer Ebene agieren. Tatsächlich werden diese v.a. durch Public-Affairs-Dienstleister, Unternehmen oder Wirtschaftsverbände konzipiert, gegründet und/oder finanziert, um das Erreichen spezifischer Organisationsziele zu unterstützen. Anna Irmisch geht diesem Phänomen in ihrer explorativen Studie nach, um herauszufinden, inwiefern Astroturf als Lobbyingstrategie in Deutschland Anwendung findet. Hierbei sucht sie die Abgr

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-662-27837-6978-3-662-29337-9

Overview: This book contains nineteen papers from among the twenty-five papers presented at the Second International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications. These papers have been selected after a careful review by well known referee‘s in the field, and they range from elementary number theory to probability and statistics. The Fibonacci numbers are their unifying bond. It is anticipated that this book will be useful to research workers and graduate students interested in the Fibonacci numbers and their applications. October 1987 The Editors Gerald E. Bergum South Dakota State

Overview: Explores the artistic self-representation of Muslim religious and cultural identity in France and the Maghreb since 2000.Features a transnational and transversal set of artistic voices that invoke dis.Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb. is a collection of essays that explores the question of artistic representation(s)/self-representation(s) of Muslim religious and cultural identity in France, the Maghreb and in/between since the 2000s. The volume offers a plurality of feminine and masculine voices and points of view on cul

Overview: Invites readers to participate in a conversation on philosophy via African philosophy.Sharply distinguishes African philosophy from Africana critical theory.Makes a case for an African-based phenomeno.The illumination of African philosophy offered in this volume leads to the illumination of philosophy in general. Illuminating arises as an essential task of philosophy, whether African or not. What is illuminated is not already there, but is constituted at the moment of illumination. This book invites the reader to participate in the illuminating work of philosophy and necessarily, the

Overview: 978-1-4615-9890-9978-1-4615-9888-6

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-662-27878-9978-3-662-29380-5

Overview: .APPLICATIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XIV...The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2006....The papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on Data Mining and Bayesian Networks; Genetic Algorithms and Optimisation Techniques; Agents and Semantic Web; and Natural Language....This is the fourteenth volume in the Applications and I

Overview: 978-3-540-73579-3978-3-540-73580-9Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: .This two-volume set of LNCS 12146 and 12147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2020, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.. The 46 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 214 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: cryptographic protocols cryptographic primitives, attacks on cryptographic primitives, encryption and signature, blockchain and cryptocurrency, secure multi-party

Overview: Reports on cutting-edge human factors research in transportation.Presents innovative strategies for optimizing human-vehicle interaction.Covers a wide spectrum of smart technologies applications.This book discusses the latest advances in the research and development, design, operation, and analysis of transportation systems, including road, rail, aviation, aerospace and maritime as well as their supporting systems and infrastructure. Focusing specifically on the contributions made by human factors and ergonomics, it analyses a wealth of topics, methods and technologies associated to 

Overview: Offers a guide to fuzzy group decision making.Highlights the importance of collaboration amongst decision makers.Discusses both anterior-aggregation and posterior-aggregation methodsThis book is focused on fuzzy group decision making, offering technical details including methodology, collaboration and aggregation mechanisms, system architectures, and applications. It explores the two categories of fuzzy-group decision making - anterior-aggregation and posterior-aggregation – and highlights how imperative collaboration amongst decision makers is for both forms...Advances in Fuzzy Grou

Overview: Documents comprehensive data on crabapple pollen electron micrographs.Provides a reference for plant breeders to study pollen structure and their compatibility for further breeding.Introduces researchThis book focuses on the morphology, exine ornamentation and the associated evolutionary trends of crabapple pollen and anatomical developmental patterns. To examine the genetic evolutionary patterns of crabapple pollen traits, we constructed an interval distribution function based on characteristic pollen parameters and used a binary trivariate data matrix (Xi Yi Zi) to reflect the exin

Overview: 978-3-322-96113-6978-3-322-96247-8