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Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues,…
including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism. Primarily examining postmodern parody, the book shows the value of aesthetic renderings of sanitary engineering for composting ideologies that fuel a ruinous impact on the world. Drawing on late twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers Norman O. Brown, Frantz Fanon, and Leo Bersani, American Sh*t shows the continued relevance of psychoanalytic interpretations of contemporary fiction for understanding post-45 authors’ engagement with waste. Ultimately, the monograph reveals how novelists Ishmael Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, and Samuel R. Delany critique subjects who abnegate their status as waste-producing beings and bring readers back to embraceWinner of the 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language LiteratureDie intelligente, algorithmenbasierte Preisgestaltung, das sogenannte Smart Pricing, ist zu einer wichtigen Säule bei der Entwicklung neuer Preisstrategien geworden. Sowohl…
die Praxis als auch wissenschaftliche Studien indizieren, dass diese Form der Preisgestaltung zu einer signifikanten Umsatz- und Gewinnsteigerung beitragen kann. Diese Buch leistet sowohl in theoretischer als auch in praktischer Hinsicht ein tiefergehendes Verständnis für Smart Pricing, im Speziellen Dynamic und Personalized Pricing, und zeigt wichtige Erklärungs- und Lösungsansätze auf, wie diese innovativen Preisstrategien systematisch gestaltet werden sollten.Data Lake Analytics on Microsoft Azure: A Practitioner's Guide to Big Data Engineering
By Harsh Chawla, Pankaj Khattar. 2020
Get a 360-degree view of how the journey of data analytics solutions has evolved from monolithic data stores and enterprise…
data warehouses to data lakes and modern data warehouses. You willThis book includes comprehensive coverage of how:To architect data lake analytics solutions by choosing suitable technologies available on Microsoft AzureThe advent of microservices applications covering ecommerce or modern solutions built on IoT and how real-time streaming data has completely disrupted this ecosystemThese data analytics solutions have been transformed from solely understanding the trends from historical data to building predictions by infusing machine learning technologies into the solutionsData platform professionals who have been working on relational data stores, non-relational data stores, and big data technologies will find the content in this book useful. The book also can help you start your journey into the data engineer world as it provides an overview of advanced data analytics and touches on data science concepts and various artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies available on Microsoft Azure.What Will You LearnYou will understand the:Concepts of data lake analytics, the modern data warehouse, and advanced data analyticsArchitecture patterns of the modern data warehouse and advanced data analytics solutionsPhases—such as Data Ingestion, Store, Prep and Train, and Model and Serve—of data analytics solutions and technology choices available on Azure under each phaseIn-depth coverage of real-time and batch mode data analytics solutions architectureVarious managed services available on Azure such as Synapse analytics, event hubs, Stream analytics, CosmosDB, and managed Hadoop services such as Databricks and HDInsightWho This Book Is ForData platform professionals, database architects, engineers, and solution architectsLathyrus sativus and Nutrition: Traditional Food Products, Chemistry and Safety Issues (SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science)
By Michele Barone, Rita Tulumello. 2020
This book addresses the traditional use of a specific crop legume, grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), as a food product and…
ingredient for typical food products. Grass pea has very interesting nutritional qualities, including an abundance of proteins and peculiar organoleptic properties. As the crop also shows an enhanced resistance to adverse conditions, it is used in many geographical areas as the main ingredient of certain traditional foods. On the other hand, grass pea is questionable as a source of human and animal nutrition because it contains a neurotoxin – β-N-oxalyl-L-α,β-diaminopropionic acid – that is known for its neurological effects. The related disease is referred to as ‘neurolathyrism’ and occurs when grass pea-based foods are consumed in large quantities. The book is divided into five chapters, the first of which summarizes the chemical and biochemical properties of grass pea and provides nutritional evaluations. The second chapter provides an overview of foods containing Lathyrus sativus around the world, while the third describes Italian foods in detail. The fourth chapter focuses on the problem of neurolathyrism in connection with human nutrition and health. In closing, the fifth chapter sheds light on the historical and traditional food products sector from a food traceability and authenticity standpoint.Social Innovation and Social Technology: Enterprise-New Technology Synergy (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #162)
By Mustapha Hatti, Kamel Boussafi, Jean-Pierre Mathieu. 2021
This proceedings book is of interest to all researchers and heads of technology laboratories; incubator managers; local and parliamentary elected…
officials; associations and civil society; social entrepreneurs; foundations interested in social life in Mediterranean region and prospective creative startup students. The purpose of book on social and social-tech innovation synergy and its practical implication on social entrepreneurship is to address the following question: - How can the experiences of the countries be combined of the north and south shores of the Mediterranean and reflect on the different opportunities offered by the new technology to cope with the various social scourges that the region has experienced in recent years? the problem of immigration. It is also about finding advanced technology applications that will solve, on a large scale, the major social challenges of our time. - How to exploit the innumerable synergies between digital and social entrepreneurship? - Why social entrepreneurs are struggling to seize digital tools to develop their socially innovative projects? - What about their ability to integrate digital into the realization and development of these projects? - How can we combine the experiences of the countries of the north and south shores of the Mediterranean and reflect on the different opportunities offered by the new technology to cope with the various social scourges that the region has experienced in recent years? the problem of immigration.Self-Healing and Self-Recovering Hydrogels (Advances in Polymer Science #285)
By Oguz Okay, Costantino Creton. 2020
This volume covers experimental and theoretical advances on the relationship between composition, structure and macroscopic mechanical properties of novel hydrogels containing dynamic bonds.…
The chapters of this volume focus on the control of the mechanical properties of several recently discovered gels with the design of monomer composition, chain architecture, type of crosslinking or internal structure. The gels discussed in the different chapters have in common the capability to dissipate energy upon deformation, a desired property for mechanical toughness, while retaining the ability to recover the properties of the virgin material over time or to self-heal when put back in contact after fracture. Some chapters focus on the synthesis and structural aspects while others focus on properties or modelling at the continuum or mesoscopic scale. The volume will be of interest to chemists and material scientists by providing guidelines and general structure-property considerations to synthesize and develop innovative gels tuned for applications. In addition it will provide physicists with a better understanding of the role of weak interactions between molecules and physical crosslinking on macroscopic dissipative properties and self-healing or self-recovering properties.Management (Fourteenth Edition)
By Stephen P. Robbins, Mary A. Coulter. 2018
For undergraduate Principles of Management courses. REAL managers, REAL experiences With a renewed focus on skills and careers, the new…
edition of this bestselling text can help better prepare individuals to enter the job market. Management, 14th Edition vividly illustrates effective management theories by incorporating the perspectives of real-life managers. Through examples, cases, and hands-on exercises, you'll see and experience management in action, helping you understand how the concepts you're learning about actually work in today's dynamic business world.Information and Software Technologies: 26th International Conference, ICIST 2020, Kaunas, Lithuania, October 15–17, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1283)
By Audrius Lopata, Rita Butkienė, Daina Gudonienė, Vilma Sukackė. 2020
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2020, held in…
Kaunas, Lithuania, in October 2020.The 23 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on business intelligence for information and software system; software engineering; information technology applications.Knowledge Socialism: The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence (East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory)
By Michael A. Peters, Xudong Zhu, Petar Jandrić, Tina Besley. 2020
This is the first collection focusing on knowledge socialism, a particularly apt term used to describe a Chinese socialist mode…
of production and socialist approach to development and modernity based around the rise of peer production, new forms of collaboration and collective intelligence. Making the case for knowledge socialism, the book is intended for students, teacher, scholars and policy theorists in the field of knowledge economy.Social Informatics: 12th International Conference, SocInfo 2020, Pisa, Italy, October 6–9, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12467)
By Dino Pedreschi, Frank Dignum, Kalina Bontcheva, Samin Aref, Marco Braghieri, Fosca Giannotti, Francesco Grisolia. 2020
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2020, held in Pisa, Italy, in…
October 2020. The 30 full and 3 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers presented in this volume cover a broad range of topics, ranging from works that ground information-system design on social concepts, to papers that analyze complex social systems using computational methods, or explore socio-technical systems using social sciences methods.Black Beauty
By Anna Sewell. 2002
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Adapted by Leigh Hope Wood. Illustrated by Richard Martin. KidsRead2Kids has generously donated this special…
collection of abridged versions of beloved classics. To hear and watch real kids reading these wonderful books to you, please visit our website KidsRead2Kids.comAdam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania: The Unknown Years
By Alain Alcouffe, Philippe Massot-Bordenave. 2020
This book provides substantial background on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc region of France during…
the 18th century. This is a crucial period in Smith’s life for at least two reasons: i) it is during this time that Smith began to work on The Wealth of Nations; and ii) it is generally understood that although some of his ideas about political economy were already formed before his trip, his encounters with many French political economists during his time in France helped him to further develop them. As such, this book provides a rich resource to further understanding Smith's world, his travel experiences and the people he met during this time and situates these within the broader context of Smith's life as a whole, and within the British aristocracy.This work will be of value to students and researchers in the history of economic thought, travel studies and Scottish studies.HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12428)
By Constantine Stephanidis, Gino Fragomeni, Jessie Y. C. Chen. 2020
This book constitutes late breaking papers from the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which was held in…
July 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings before the conference took place. In addition, a total of 333 papers and 144 posters are included in the volumes of the proceedings published after the conference as “Late Breaking Work” (papers and posters). These contributions address the latest research and development efforts in the field and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The 34 late breaking papers presented in this volume were organized in two topical sections named: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Design and Implementation; and User Experience in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality.Advances on Broad-Band Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Broad-Band and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA-2020) (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #159)
By Makoto Takizawa, Leonard Barolli, Tomoya Enokido, Hsing-Chung Chen, Keita Matsuo. 2021
This book aims to provide the latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and…
practical perspectives related to the emerging areas of broadband and wireless computing. Information networks of today are going through a rapid evolution. Different kinds of networks with different characteristics are emerging, and they are integrating in heterogeneous networks. For these reasons, there are many interconnection problems which may occur at different levels of the hardware and software design of communicating entities and communication networks. These kinds of networks need to manage an increasing usage demand, provide support for a significant number of services, guarantee their QoS, and optimize the network resources. The success of all-IP networking and wireless technology has changed the ways of living the people around the world. The progress of electronic integration and wireless communications is going to pave the way to offer people the access to the wireless networks on the fly, based on which all electronic devices will be able to exchange the information with each other in ubiquitous way whenever necessary.This book addresses and explores recent trends in the field of local and urban governance. It focuses on three domains:…
institutional reforms in local government; inter-municipal cooperation; and citizen participation in local governance. In the last decades, in different regions of the world, there is ample evidence that sub-national government, in particular the field of local governance, is in a permanent state of change and reflux, although with differences that reflect national particularities. Since these institutional changes have an impact in the local policy process, in the delivery of public services, in the local democracy, and in the quality of life, it is mandatory to monitor these continued institutional changes, to learn and develop with these changes, if possible before these experiences are transferred and replicated in other countries. The editor and contributors address issues of interest for a wide audience, comprising of students and researchers in various disciplines, and policy makers at both national and sub-national tiers of government.Making It Big: Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms
By Keller, Andrea Ciani, Marie Caitriona Hyland, Nona Karalashvili, Trang Thu Tran. 2020
Economic and social progress requires a diverse ecosystem of firms that play complementary roles. Making It Big: Why Developing Countries…
Need More Large Firms constitutes one of the most up-to-date assessments of how large firms are created in low- and middle-income countries and their role in development. It argues that large firms advance a range of development objectives in ways that other firms do not: large firms are more likely to innovate, export, and offer training and are more likely to adopt international standards of quality, among other contributions. Their particularities are closely associated with productivity advantages and translate into improved outcomes not only for their owners but also for their workers and for smaller enterprises in their value chains. The challenge for economic development, however, is that production does not reach economic scale in low- and middle-income countries. Why are large firms scarcer in developing countries? Drawing on a rare set of data from public and private sources, as well as proprietary data from the International Finance Corporation and case studies, this book shows that large firms are often born large—or with the attributes of largeness. In other words, what is distinct about them is often in place from day one of their operations. To fill the “missing top†? of the firm-size distribution with additional large firms, governments should support the creation of such firms by opening markets to greater competition. In low-income countries, this objective can be achieved through simple policy reorientation, such as breaking oligopolies, removing unnecessary restrictions to international trade and investment, and establishing strong rules to prevent the abuse of market power. Governments should also strive to ensure that private actors have the skills, technology, intelligence, infrastructure, and finance they need to create large ventures. Additionally, they should actively work to spread the benefits from production at scale across the largest possible number of market participants. This book seeks to bring frontier thinking and evidence on the role and origins of large firms to a wide range of readers, including academics, development practitioners and policy makers.The Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Italy: A Focus on Academic Spin-Offs
By Alessandra Micozzi. 2020
New firm creation is one of the most important topics at economic, social and political level. The emergence of new…
ventures is central to economic adaptation and change and one of the major features associated with growth in employment and in sector productivity. Entrepreneurship is now at the centre of many policy questions related to science and technology, research and development, sustainability, poverty, human capital, employment, tangible and intangible resouces. This book provides a better understanding of the process for setting up new initiatives, analysing the several factors related to entrepreneurship dynamic. It specifically analyses the factors explaining the entrepreneurial rates in Italy and the differences in entrepreneurial dynamics in a sample of EU countries. This book shows that the entrepreneurial dynamics is very different across countries and to establish a policy to foster entrepreneurship, there is a need to investigate which factors drive the entrepreneurial process. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in Entrepreneurship, and it also offers interesting indications to policy makers. Stimulating innovative entrepreneurship is one of the highest priorities in the current economic debate, and is particularly important in countries like Italy, where economic growth is slow and youth unemployment rates are very high.The Innovation Revolution in Agriculture: A Roadmap to Value Creation
By Hugo Campos. 2021
This open access book is an important reframing of the role of innovation in agriculture. Dr. Campos and his distinguished…
coauthors address the need for agriculture to feed a growing global population with a reduced environmental footprint while adapting to and mitigating the effects of changing climate. The authors expand the customary discussion of innovation in terms of supply driven R&D to focus on the returns to investors and most importantly, the value to end-users. This is brought to life by exploring effective business models and many cases from agricultural systems across the globe. The focus on converting the results of innovation in R&D into adoption by farmers and other end-users is its greatest contribution. Many lessons from the book can be applied to private and public sectors across an array of agricultural systems. This book will be of enormous value to agri-business professionals, NGO leaders, agricultural and development researchers and those funding innovation and agriculture across the private and public sectors. Tony Cavalieri, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Hugo Campos, Ph.D., MBA, has 20+ years of international corporate and development experience. His distinguished coauthors represent a rich collection of successful innovation practice in industry, consultancy, international development and academy, in both developed and developing countries.”Pathomechanics of Common Foot Disorders
By Douglas H. Richie Jr. 2021
This new book consolidates the current knowledge of lower extremity biomechanics and pathomechanics and makes this information relevant to the…
study of common foot and ankle pathologies. The content is presented in a language and format that allows the clinician to review current evidence explaining the etiology of these disorders in order to formulate effective treatment interventions. In order to understand pathomechanics, the clinician must also become versed in the normal, healthy biomechanics of the lower extremity. A review of gait, muscle function and forces acting on the lower extremities during physical activity will be the focus of the first part of this book. The second part of the book will study the common, challenging pathologies treated on a daily basis by foot and ankle clinicians: hallux abducto valgus, hallux rigidus, metatarsalgia, digital deformities, adult acquired flatfoot, and plantar heel pain. These chapters discuss all the relevant factors contributing to these conditions, evaluating and exposing myths and misconceptions about the pathomechanics and treatments of these conditions. For each disorder, a comprehensive review of published research provides a foundation for an updated, valid description of etiology and risk factors. Providing a fresh approach to lower extremity pathomechanics and management strategies, Pathomechanics of Common Foot Disorders is a valuable resource for podiatrists and orthopedic foot and ankle surgeons at all levels.Grundlagen der Unternehmensführung: Einführung für Bachelorstudierende (Springer-Lehrbuch)
By Torsten Wulf, Harald Hungenberg. 2011
In dem Band führen die Autoren praxisnah und anschaulich in die Grundlagen der Unternehmensführung ein. Sie behandeln die Bereiche Strategie,…
Organisation, Personal(führung) und Controlling und illustrieren die Theorie anhand einer fiktiven Fallstudie, die die Leser durch das gesamte Buch begleitet. Für die 4. Auflage wurden alle Inhalte aktualisiert und das Kapitel Personal und Führung weiter vertieft. Diskussions- und Verständnisfragen finden sich am Ende jedes Kapitels, Lösungen stehen auf der begleitenden Internetseite zur Verfügung.